Yahoo has continued to erase and freeze my webpages about Stutz law firm--even after I won in the Court of Appeal!

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from Maura Larkins
to Cecilia Yoshida
date Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 9:34 AM
Subject: Yahoo has continued to erase and freeze my webpages about Stutz law firm--even after I won in the Court of Appeal!


Yahoo Legal Department
701 First Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94118
Dear Yahoo Legal Department:

When Yahoo began erasing bits and pieces of my education website a few years ago, I figured that it was merely doing a personal favor for Stutz Artiano Shinoff & Holtz law firm and California Teachers Association. When I contacted Yahoo, I was told that Yahoo would never do such a thing. But the erasures continued, and some of my web pages were frozen so I couldn't change them. Also, the content of those pages was often changed to a long-outdated version.

I thought this would end when I won in the California Court of Appeal. I figured professional courtesy would take second place to the law of the land. But it has gotten worse, not better. I have found many altered, frozen pages recently.

I wondered why Yahoo would behave in this manner, undermining its customers for the sake of lawyers who had no legal justification for their requests. Yahoo knows that it is erasing material that is not defamatory--and what's more, Yahoo has no legal obligation to erase material even if it were defamatory. So why would Yahoo keep doing this? I have come to suspect that Yahoo isn't sabotaging customers merely to please its lawyer pals, but perhaps the lawyers are actually customers, and they pay more than I do! Did Yahoo accept payment for sabotaging my website?

Sincerely,
Maura Larkins
mauralarkins.com