To Yahoo: re
http://www.geocities.com/truthmasters/jointheboycott.htm 

                complaint no. (KMM48187527V94967L0KM)

 

Join the Boycott, an initiative of the Friends of Israel Community, is a Yahoo Geocities website addressing the serious problem of anti-Israel propaganda in the Los Angeles Times, and anti-Israel bias in general. Join the Boycott has been providing ongoing commentary on this subject for over 5 years. Join the Boycott advocates responsible consumer protest as a means to combat anti-Israel bias. 

Join the Boycott’s activities are an exercise of the First Amendment Right of Freedom of Speech.

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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:30:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: df <teachntrain@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: explanation please (KMM48187527V94967L0KM)
To: Yahoo! Geocities <geo-guidelines@cc.yahoo-inc.com>

This is not an adequate response. Please respond to our request to know exactly it is that Join the Boycott said and what exact language of the Yahoo terms of service you claim we “violated”. Our next response, if necessary, will be disseminated to a much wider audience.

David Frankenthal, webmaster for Join the Boycott. 

Yahoo! Geocities
<geo-guidelines@cc.yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

Dear David,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Geocities.

Your Yahoo! account was disabled pursuant to the Yahoo! GeoCities Terms
of Service (TOS). You agreed to abide by the TOS when you created your
Yahoo! GeoCities account. The TOS can be found for your review at:

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/geoterms.html

and provides in relevant part: “You agree that Yahoo!, in its sole
discretion, may terminate your password, Yahoo! GeoCities site, use of
the Service or use of any other Yahoo! service, and remove and discard
any Content within the Service, for any reason, including, without
limitation, for lack of use or if Yahoo! believes that you have violated
or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the TOS. Yahoo! may
also in its sole discretion and
at any time discontinue providing the
Service, or any part thereof, with or without notice. You agree that any
termination of your access to the service under any provision of this
TOS may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that
Yahoo! may immediately deactivate or delete your Yahoo! GeoCities Site
and all related information and files in your Yahoo GeoCities site
and/or bar any further access to such files or the Service.”

We take the operation of Yahoo! and the TOS very seriously. We continue
to support Users who abide by the TOS.

You are welcome to establish a new account with Yahoo! and Yahoo!
GeoCities at any time, provided that your use complies with our Terms of
Service. If you are concerned that your intended use of our service may
be a violation of the TOS, we encourage you to review the TOS and to
take care to proceed accordingly.

In the future, if you find what you feel to be
a violation of our Terms
of Service, we encourage you to report it to us via our Violation
Reporting Form:

http://geocities.yahoo.com/v/alert.html

We also encourage you to review our TOS:

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/geoterms.html

If you feel this message does not adequately respond to your question or
comment, please reply to this email and let us know.

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.

Regards,

Allyson Parker

Yahoo! Customer Care
http://www.yahoo.com/

33303075

Original Message Follows:
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To Yahoo! Geocities:

We are outraged at your continued denial of Join the Boycott’s freedom
of speech and its contractual rights. We do not recall the specific
language of the Yahoo terms of service existing at the time we joined.
But we do know that at the heart of every contract is a basic
requirement that the
parties act in good faith. Closing our website
without notice, without explanation, and without recourse is the
ultimate bad faith behaviour.

We have been a client of Yahoo Geocities for about 5 years. We have
brought approximately 200,000 hits to Yahoo Geocities. To treat us with
this level of discourtesy and disrespect is adding insult to the
considerable injury you have caused Join the Boycott.

And just what is our sin here?

That we told the truth about KPFK and its virulent anti-Israel
propaganda and anti-semitism?:

see [Israeli] “Massacres”, [Israel’s] “Wars against Palestinians”,
“Israel’s Assault of Palestine”, “AIPAC’s Influence on US Foreign
Policy”, etc.
“For a gift of $65 to KPFK, they will “gift” you the CD “Blood and
Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State”. see Radio
Intifada
That we told the truth about Whole Foods support of KPFK and its
“Radio Intifada”?

Or perhaps that we continue to tell the truth about LA Times
anti-Israel propaganda, or the anti-Israel propaganda at the BBC, or at
NPR. Which is it?

Where does it say in the contract that telling the truth is a
violation of Yahoo’s terms of service?

Yes. You need to give us a full explanation as to what exactly it is
that we said and what exact language of the Yahoo terms of service we
“violated”.

Join the Boycott is a serious website with a serious message to
impart, one that people want to hear. We demand you put Join the Boycott
back online immediately and issue us a refund of every cent you owe us
for every moment you have kept our website offline.

If you do not, we intend to take action to protect our rights and we
are including in our consideration all forms of legal action available
to us.

Sincerely,

David Frankenthal
Webmaster of Join the Boycott and payor of the
truthmasters Yahoo ID
http://www.geocities.com/truthmasters/jointheboycott.htm

Yahoo! Geocities wrote:
Hello,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Geocities.

Your Yahoo! account was disabled pursuant to the Yahoo! GeoCities Terms
of Service (TOS). You agreed to abide by the TOS when you created your
Yahoo! GeoCities account. The TOS can be found for your review at:

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/geoterms.html

and provides in relevant part: “You agree that Yahoo!, in its sole
discretion, may terminate your password, Yahoo! GeoCities site, use of
the Service or use of any other Yahoo! service, and remove and discard
any Content within the Service, for any reason, including, without
limitation, for lack of use or if Yahoo! believes that you have violated
or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the TOS. Yahoo! may
also in its sole discretion and at any
time discontinue providing the
Service, or any part thereof, with or without notice. You agree that any
termination of your access to the service under any provision of this
TOS may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that
Yahoo! may immediately deactivate or delete your Yahoo! GeoCities Site
and all related information and files in your Yahoo GeoCities site
and/or bar any further access to such files or the Service.”

We take the operation of Yahoo! and the TOS very seriously. We continue
to support Users who abide by the TOS.

You are welcome to establish a new account with Yahoo! and Yahoo!
GeoCities at any time, provided that your use complies with our Terms of
Service. If you are concerned that your intended use of our service may
be a violation of the TOS, we encourage you to review the TOS and to
take care to proceed accordingly.

In the future, if you find what you feel to be a
violation of our Terms
of Service, we encourage you to report it to us via our Violation
Reporting Form:

http://geocities.yahoo.com/v/alert.html

We also encourage you to review our TOS:

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/geoterms.html

If you feel this message does not adequately respond to your question or
comment, please reply to this email and let us know.

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.

Regards,

Charmaine McDaniels

Yahoo! Customer Care
http://www.yahoo.com/

33303075

Original Message Follows:
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>>REDFRMADV

Yahoo Geocities ID: truthmasters
zip code: 90034
DOB: 8/24/52

The Yahoo Geocities website Join the Boycott

http://www.geocities.com/truthmasters/jointheboycott.htm

has been taken offline without explanation, without warning, and
without any information as to how to respond.

As the webmaster and payor of the truthmasters ID for Join the
Boycott I am very upset.

Why has this website been taken offline? Who is responsible for this?
Who is/are the person(s) behind this scheme.

Please put Join the Boycott back online immediately and please provide
a full explantion for this interruption and please provide a refund for
the time it has been offline.

Thank you in anticipation of your prompt response to this address
teachntrain@yahoo.com

David Frankenthal
Join the Boycot webmaster and payor of truthmasters ID