OpenWebReviews of openweb.com

Just another horrible company that censors content. I honestly believe this company should be shut down.

Censorship that masquerade behind "reducing toxicity" and making internet the better place.

Total censorship of Conservative voices on the Fox News app. Raging leftists can post any vile thing but when we respond, our message "is not currently available."

The worst. That’s all there is to be said.

They have gotten rid of most of the spam, but they're also getting rid of loads of legitimate comments on Yahoo Finance. I posted a comment talking about how Disney was overvalued, and even if their earnings went back up to 2019 levels which is really unlikely because of all the big movies which came out that year, they would still have a P/E ratio of around 20. OpenWeb's algorithm removed my comment because it supposedly violated Yahoo Finance's Community Guidelines. Maybe it's because I used the term "insanely unlikely", and they didn't like the term "insane", but it's still stupid. Their algorithm is trash, and they don't even bother telling you which guideline they think you violated, or allow you to appeal to a human moderator. The algorithm is worse than YouTube's, because at least the comment YouTube removed could appear hateful at first glance. (I made up a fake anecdote about a certain group of people to prove my point about anecdotes not being real evidence, but I can see why their algorithm would think it violated their policy.) Although, at least OpenWeb tells you which comment was removed.

Selective enforcement of comments, arbitrary bans. Power gone mad from people who have no real talent and got bored.

They'll reject a comment with no explanation as to why and then the article being commented on is no longer accessible from that medium.

What OpenWeb has been doing for the past 2 years alone is very obvious, easily to be captured through data, and these platforms should be criminal. This platform outright censors anyone and anything that does not serve THEIR rhetoric (provided as a contractual third-party service). This is not conspiracy but has been proven through several trials and data runs on multiple accounts placed all over the world. In short, their censorship is aimed particularly at the conservative profiles and comments at the same time allowing other hateful comments that are more leaning to the left (again we aren't confirming political biases outright but are comparing the inconsistencies). So in other words when they ultimately tally up the user tendencies, on both extremes, what one user is allowed to post and have passed is not equal to what the other is allowed to post and have passed with the same historical profiles i.e. two profiles, each to both extremes, and then intersecting in order prove the outcome. We also found that they were softly moderating in 2022 and JUST SO HAPPENS to ramp up beginning Jan. 1 2024 due to it being an election year so the censorship is even more rampant. Go to Yahoo news and look at every article/comment section and look for yourself.