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The original doc. at http://freeassemblage.blogspot.com/2009/03/yahoo-hypocrisy-over-penis-question.html contains hyperlinks to references.Wednesday, March 4, 2009Yahoo Hypocrisy Over "Penis" Question >If a 13 year old girl goes to a Yahoo page that tells her women want big penises,will her father know that she saw the ad?<A few weeks ago I wrote "Penises, Little Boys, and Internet Responsibility...." Itwas about how Yahoo and almost all the popular web sites including dictionaries,encyclopedias, search engines, online magazines and newspapers--in short, justabout all websites--now have the advertising that screams, "Give Her A BiggerPenis!"Well, not only am I tired of seeing the word, just as I got tired of hearing it10,000 times when John and Lorena Bobbitt became famous for what Wikipedia callsan "incident", "in 1993 when Lorena severed John's penis with a knife."She did it on purpose. Apparently women in Ecuador do it all to time to cheatinghusbands, so Lorena was deported back to her native country. John got it sewedback on, and became a porn film star.But the press went crazy with the story, because for the first time in broadcasthistory they could say "penis" without worrying about why they were saying it andperhaps being fined, or fired, or condemned by right wingers. This was alegitimate news story--that was played out, and talked out, until the whole thingwas just a joke so they could say "penis" on the air.Then the broadcasters got tired of that story and found other reasons to say"penis." After all, it was now acceptable on-air. It was months beforebroadcasters got tired of using the word, and finally quit.Now it's back in internet advertising. Once again I got tired of it, but this timeI thought it was wrong that minors could see the advertising that told them--nomatter how old they were--that they needed bigger penises.If a 9 year old boy goes to the Mirriam-Webster Online Dictionary and sees thisad, does his mother know it?If a 13 year old girl goes to a Yahoo news page and sees the ad that tells herwomen want big penises, will her father know that she saw the ad?So I raised the issue in a question I posted on Yahoo Answers, a forum wherepeople ask question in any of a hundred or so categories from anthropology to zoo-ology. Since I was the top-rated questioner in the Philosophy forum, I asked myquestion there.My account was deleted by Yahoo.I wrote to Yahoo, not to protest, but to ask about their hypocrisy. I did notexpect an answer of any sort except for a form letter telling me they had madetheir decision and that it was final.I didn't expect anything more because that is how Yahoo handles all their YahooAnswers problems. Violators of their rules are never told which rule they broke.They never get a personal handling of their complaint, question, or protest. Allthey get is a form letter.
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