Yahoo censoring Ron Paul.?

Why does Yahoo! chose not to list Ron Paul on the list of presidential contenders? I posted the same question earlier and did get some amazing answers, thank you. Now that we have come up with our own ideas on why Yahoo does not list Ron Paul, lets ask Yahoo why. If you are upset by this then I strongly suggest giving Yahoo your opinions. Maybe we can flood them with enough complaints that they will do something about it, it worked for ABC! The link is posted below. Please be polite when you address Yahoo. As someone stated in a different thread, those of us supporting Ron Paul also represent Ron Paul so don't make him look like a jackass. Be assertive but not rude, please!


Those of you out there who do not support Ron Paul should still be upset that the mainstream media is using censorship to protect its corporate elites. If they chose not to list the person you want to be president, after winning a national debate, you would be upset too


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Yahoo censoring Ron Paul.?
Yeah, Yahoo has been pretty useless lately on this issue. Bias shows through, even if it's not obvious. It shouldn't matter whether anyone thinks he "has a chance" or not, because we're so early in the process that no one knows who has or doesn't have a chance. Anyone who remembers the elections of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan knows that neither one of these "had a chance" and yet did get elected. Front-runners don't usually last through the whole election. Relative unknowns often come through. But I don't think Ron Paul is actually unknown. He may not be well-known by the mainstream, but he's got a pretty solid group of supporters nationwide - the kind of people you can build a campaign from. He reminds me of where Howard Dean was at this time last year. So, I do think he has a chance - especially among the current Republican candidates.





Actually, that may be why the press is ignoring him. If they admit that Ron Paul won the debate, they admit that there were nine other people that they've been promoting as big names that turned out to be duds.
Reply:Yahoo only listed a limited number of probable candidates to give way to its advertisements. Thus, many candidates prominently Ron Paul was omitted prompting many people to react.





VOTE for your choice as US President on my 360 degrees blog and know if Ron Paul will likely win.
Reply:Yes it's true, he won the republican debate according to MSNBC polls, but the mainstream outlets are ignoring him





We're discussing this situation here:
Reply:They did finally put him on. If all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing (Edmund Burke), then evil is not going to fare too well against us. Rock on, Paul supporters!
Reply:I have to admit I hadn't a clue to who Ron Paul was until now. You just educated me, I went to his website and after reading his thoughts, I'm thinking, where have I been. This is the next man we should have for President. I would gladly donate to his funds just to see a man like him, with some common sense get in. I'm going to work here and start telling all my e-mail friends to go to his website.


Thank you.
Reply:Yahoo and all the other media is censoring Ron Paul. There are at least 6 of the 10 candidates who do not have a chance of winning Ron Paul is the only one who is being left out.
Reply:He's got my vote and I will write him in if I have to. At least I will have voted for the best person for the job.
Reply:I believe Yahoo is deliberately censoring Ron Paul. There is absolutely no reason why Yahoo can't list all of the candidates. It is misleading and if Yahoo wants to be reputable they should represent all of them. The audacity for any institution to think they can already narrow the field is outrageous. I've had the same frustration with ABC news. They deleted close to 1000 comments (most of them favorable) on a Ron Paul story and are forbidding any new posts.
Reply:Yahoo is a corporation owned by wealthy people who are getting rich from global "free trade", military adventurism, and taking advantage of the influx of low wage earning illegal aliens. Of course they want to marginalize and ignore Ron Paul. His platform directly threatens their increasing riches and their stranglehold on political power. If you ever believed or wanted to believe that "Mr. Smith" could go to Washington and make it a place where the decent people of this nation could have their interests addressed, support Rep. Dr. Ron Paul.
Reply:hmmmmmm.


Dont know much about this Ron Paul but i have heard of him.


cant say much.
Reply:I'd like to hear a response to this also. Ron Paul has consistently rated very high,if not at the lead of most recent polls. This has happened at site after site.
Reply:Obviously they are uneducated about the very lawmwker who


has always voted to keep the internet free.





Or, in the alternative they are just another media outlet using their platform to further their own wishes to the detriment of freedom.
Reply:Ron Paul is one of the few honest members of Congress. He is a man of integraty and isn't bought and paid for by corporatations or wealthy individuals. Yahoo is a major corporation and probably hopes like many in the power structure of the American empire that the common man doesn't learn who Ron Paul is. If more Americans new about Ron Paul, his campaign would really take off. Keep up the pressure on Yahoo so that Ron Paul gets his chance.
Reply:Maybe they are doing it because his campaign workers and supporters are whining all over the place and spamming the Internet. That won't get you more support.
Reply:Ron Paul in my opinion is the best candidate running for the office of president. He has integrity, has honesty, and will not bow down to the mainstream media and Neo-con globalists. Yahoo and other media outlets are Censoring Congressman Paul because they are afraid.





He (Paul) is founding fathers material and is one of the last great and true patriots.





I consider it my duty as an American citizen to vote for him.
Reply:It should be noted that:


Yahoo! has a page advertising "Full Coverage: Presidential Election 2008"


There is a link purporting to lead to "all Republican candidates"


Yahoo! includes candidates who have been less successful than Ron Paul at fundraising and in public opinion polls, such as Duncan Hunter, Sam Brownback and Mike Huckabee. At last report, Dr. Paul had almost as much cash on hand as Tom Tancredo.


When I phoned Yahoo! six hours ago, the rep assured me they had received a lot of calls and were fixing the website. So far, they haven't. How many times a day does Yahoo! News update their website?


These facts indicate dishonesty on the part of Yahoo! News election coverage. They promise "Full Coverage" of all the candidates, and even include "minor" candidates with no chance of winning. The only candidate they leave out is the one with the most loyal, enthusiastic following: Ron Paul.
Reply:I think you should have ended your question before the last couple of sentences. In my opinion, saying that Paul's absence from the Yahoo list of candidates is related to a media conspiracy is distracting and counterproductive. The real cause of this problem is much more simple and much more boring - the people working for Yahoo who are responsible for maintaining that particular page are only as careful as they have to be about the information they provide. They aren't going to lose sleep over candidates who aren't currently one of the favorites and aren't well funded at the moment. So as you said, be assertive and not rude, and we will overcome the apathy toward Ron Paul at Yahoo and others in the media.
Reply:In order for Ron Paul to be censored by anyone, first he would have to pose a threat to someone. I sincerely doubt any of the major candidates are concerned about him winning the nomination.
Reply:Don't know about Yahoo, but as a Fellow Texan, Ron Paul,


has a zero chance, which is why he has no traction.
Reply:Yahoo doesn't sensor based on that kind of stuff. It really doesn't matter because Ron Paul has the chance of an ice cube in the Sahara Desert of even getting his party's nomination let alone the presidency. Get over him.
Reply:Its not censorship...Yahoo is a private comapny that has the right to support or promote who it wishes...i would imagine that Ron Paul will not be a candidate for the Ballot in the vast majority of states...that is what you should be conderned about. Who cares what a media outlet suppports if you can't even vote for the person in your state?