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They need to rename the company "Closed Web." Their latest strategy on Yahoo News is to just reject any comment that triggers any keywords they don't like. Or if we don't name them Closed Web, we could call them Lazy Web, because they don't really do any actual moderation of chat comments. All they do is reject their "trigger words." Lol

The subject was about political parties and tariffs. I made the following comment "Did we learn nothing about tariffs with Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression." It was immediately rejected. No explanation, no vulgarity, no mention of current political candidates. More and more the AI or whatever they use is shutting down any intelligence discourse

OpenWeb is censorship, plain and simple. Comments of mine on Yahoo too numerous to list, have been rejected. I am one of many; read other reviews here. OpenWeb should be sued into oblivion.

Hey OpenWeb, Please tell me how the below quoted comments violate ANY sort of 'community guidlines' on the Yahoo platform: "Refer to Arizona Revised Statutes 13-3841 through 13.3870.02 and 18 USC 3182." "You should look up Arizona law regarding extradidtion before complaing about a "koolaid drinking DA" and precedence. Just to make it easy: 18 USC 3841 and ARS 18-3841 through 12.2870.02 are the relevant Statutes." Please note that 'koolaid drinking...' is a quote from the post being replied to. "That is what is required under Arizona law. NYS made the mistake of trying to bully their way into getting the suspect in violation of the ARS."

There is no rhyme or reason to their censorship. I see terrible posts that attack people in the story and comment on the inaccuracy and I get failed to publish. Yahoo would be best served by getting rid of this company.

I was posting a comment on yahoo about a stay in the hospital I had with Sepsis. I had to divide it into two parts. The initial Comment was as follows: ---Begin Original Comment--- Part 1 / 2 I remember my brush with sepsis all too well. During the COVID lockdown, I was streaming minecraft in a discord server to my friends (I was building the roof to a clinic, ironically) and I felt... wierd. I was a bit dizzy and my stomach didn't feel right. I checked my temperature -- a fever of 100.1. I checked it with another thermometer and it gave me 101.0. I honestly thought I had caught COVID, so I rushed to the hospital to get tested. The nurses looked at me with scrutiny and told me I didn't have the signs of COVID, but took me in back anyway. By then, I was developing a horrible migraine. Time slipped away from me. I remember becoming dazed and fell asleep after vomiting. I woke up and heard two nurses outside my ER room talking. I remember one of them said, "I am worried about this one here in room XX. I thought she was a hypochondriac at first but then she declined rapidly." ---End Original Comment--- They rejected this comment on the account that it violated guidelines. I don't understand why this comment would be rejected except for the last part, which was simply what I overheard a nurse saying about me. I attempted a repeal and it was also rejected. This is not an insult toward anyone, this is a legit account of what happened to me in the hospital. The Moderators at Open Web need to learn to understand the context behind a comment rather than simply rejecting it based on a word they find personally offensive.

I'd give it a zero stars if I could. I'm a regular on several different media outlets that use OpenWeb as their comments platform, and it's the worst I've ever seen. Nazis, Klanners, neo-Confederates, hate groups of all kind, and Russian propaganda trolls are their favored user base, and are allowed to post any racist, bigoted, hateful screed they want, 24/7/365 with near-total impunity, while anyone who speaks out against these Reich-wing trash can expect to be shadow-banned (OW's favorite tactic; apparently they're too stupid to realize that you can tell easily enough.) Basically, all the complaints here from Reich-wing "conservatives" is utter hogwash. Take a look at any place that uses OW and see. Try HuffPost for an example.

Openweb's accounts system is broken and has poor user interface. Don't recommend using it.