To my understanding, Google help Chinese Communist Party to filt  \nsearh result, so the search result only have hate propoganda to Falungong, Yahoo help Chinese goverment to search the email history, so Chinese communist part arrest the journalist and sentence him to jail for 10 years, only because he fullfill his duty, send a real News as a ordinary journalist to his boss.MSN also delete a people's personal blog, only he tell some truth about China, so his blog is very popular and famous, under pressure of Chinese government, Microsoft do such things.\nChhinese Communist party really do lots of Bad things, they take Falungong people's kiddney when they are still alive, and sale it. and they they burn their body, even they are still alive, a reliable message said that there are at least 4000 such cases.\nPlus, more than 2800 Falungong people is already known tortured to death. \nI am not sure, when yahoo, MSN, Cisco, Google help CCP to persecute people, is it legal?
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While I'm not sure on many of the specifics, I do know that google and other major webportals have been criticized for assisting the Chinese governments censorship efforts.  In the end it comes down to money.  With 1.3billion people China is the largest growth market in the world and the company that lands the state contract for whatever service they are pushing will make billions in the long term.\n\nYes it’s perfectly “legal”, China is a sovereign nation with their own laws and civil protections (not sure what these are, guardrails maybe?).  It seems wrong to assist them from a Western ethical viewpoint, at least to me.  Corporations however are rarely moral and seldom very ethical entities, especially when the government isn’t encouraging them to be in the form of huge fines.\n\nRegards,\nArmus
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They're trying to stir up trouble just like the people who post topic after topic spouting "Bush is Hitler!" and "Should Bush be impeached?".\n\nBuncha flamers.\n\nBy the way, Communism 99% of the time won't work unless it's a very small, agrarian community. When it comes to larger, more prosperous countries it won't work. There will always be people in the government that are greedy and feel they are better than everyone else, plus don't you think Communism is unfair? A server at McDonalds would get the exact same amount of everything as a doctor or lawyer, do you think anyone would be motivated to go to college anymore?
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A company's raison d'etre is almost always profit motivated. Listed companies under pressure to reap profits, are further accountable to their shareholders, who expect dividends and capital returns from their investments (Stocks, Shares, Unit trusts, and so on.)\n\nSecondary but of equal importance, is the required compliance to various regulations of the Country, Stock exchange, Companies Act and any other provisions laid down by the Government.\n\nDoing business in all countries including England and US, require regulatory compliance on all forms of mass media. \n\nWhilst regulatory requirements of national security of concern in capitalist markets, the main motivation comes from trade protectionism enforced through federal and/or state legislation.\n\nChina, on the otherhand, has a political system which is very much intergral to the free market policy. So long as the Status Quo is maintained with the existing power structure of governance not under threat (perceived and real), all other functions play second fiddle.\n\nChina's laws happens to be more glaring that they uphold the Collective over Individual freedom.\n\nThe reason of political sensitivity is specific with no uncertain terms, backed by severe penalties, dubbed by media as the Great Firewall of China. General context (2)(3)(4) to provide on the severity of the issue.\n\nThe regulations are spelt out in “2. Censorship by Internet Content Providers: Delegating censorship to business”, paragraphs One through Six. (1)\n\n\nAbridged: Notably Paragraphs Three through Six are specific, with One and Two, providing provisio as follows:\n\n- Para. Three, and Key to it, places the Action and Onus on the business to police the site on behalf of the government, “taken down manually by company employees.” “To date, Yahoo! is the only Western company known to have signed the pledge (as will be discussed further in Section IV, Part 1).”\n\n- Para. Four, provides for any breaches to employees and Company that may result in revocation of the company’s license. To avoid a breach, services maintain lists that will raise a red flag for manual removal.\n\n- Para. Five, refers to search engines similarly follow suit. Additionally, “the user is prevented from knowing that the forbidden content exists at all. This is a deliberate choice made by the operator of the search engine.”\n\n- Para. Six, contained within the notes.\n\n- Para. One, spells out the purpose to place accountability on private business to prevent politically sensitive and objectionable content information.\n\n- Para. Two, requires licenses to be displayed.
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Can't answer that, have tried to access this site but it is filtered by my works firewall!\nHas far-right implications though.
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There needs to be other things taken into consideration. Do you know anything about this person? Merely visiting a website is not illegal like you pointed out. In a democracy, we should be able to read anything we want and/or visit whatever websites we want. During the Cold War, if someone pulled the Communist Manifesto from the library, people would assume that they were an enemy of the state. Today it is standard reading in Comparative Politics and Political Theory classes. This is not to suggest that the teachings of "radical extremists" will be legitimized in the future. What am I am suggesting is that people often read to LEARN what others believe, not because they believe it themselves. If you really feel like this person is a threat because of some further evidence other than simply viewing a website, then sure turn it over to the authorities. But please don't get wrapped up in this modern day witch hunt. \n\nP.S. There are all different types of radical extremism. The tendency to lean to the extreme exists in every belief and ideology and theology. I assume that you're suggesting that it was an radical Islam website but you should make that clear.
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I don't support the Communist and their Dictator Hu. They have committed genocide on China's people for years. Look at their abortion laws and population control, that alone is genocide. It's the Republicans and their uncontrollable greed. Communist China is an atheist Country, and there are way to many things to list in here. It's a total travesty and embarrassment to the American People and our Democratic society. I want to know if this is what the Republicans have in mind for America to become a Communist Nation. I am not going for the Dictator thing now with George Bush.
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It is the Communist News Network. They are incapable of having any American patriotism showing. I too think it is a shame that we have have 2 soldiers beheaded & the big news is an old story about what a few Marines were suppose to do, charging them does not make it a new or bigger story than torturing our brave soldiers. Shame on all Americans not mourning the death of our soldiers by torture.\n\nCindy Sheehan leading the protest against President Bush today in another country is her shame not his. Maybe she should find time in the next year to see  or pay for her son's gravesite - it has been over 2 years since she has been to it. As a mother of a soldier, I can see her grief. NOT! She is an attention wanter & nothing else, just like the Communist News Network (CNN)
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the aclu says yes to child pornography and no to baby jesus.\n\ni'd say that's beyond communism. that's f*cked up secular humanism...and even that is being nice about it.
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Absolutely. There is a huge problem with internet fraud and the proliferation of child pornography. MacLean's magazine had a great article recently titled something like, The Internet Sucks. People think they can spread hate propoganda and get away with it. I'm all for free speech too, but not this kind of free speech.
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It is evil, I still appreciate the services yahoo provides to me, but to censor anyone in search of freedom, and give in to an oppressive government (such as china's), or any government "request", is simply wrong, and proves that though there are still a few good minds, and good souls behind yahoo, the cooperation is sadly, slowly being claimed by evil, censorship, and anti-freedom "forces"... I think what is happening to yahoo, and what it is doing in China, are both very sad... if any of you good yahoo people read this, please stop the oppressive forces within your otherwise good company, before it is too late...
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Yeah, it's biased.  But what do you expect from a corporation that readily hands over personal Internet subject search records of Americans over to Bush and Co. in the administration's guise of cracking down on porn?  From what I heard, they also use people to fill Yahoo Answers with questioners and answerers that push the Republican agenda.\n\nAnd it was dumb to pose that question.  It is a crime to threaten the President and even though you weren't trying to do that, it can be interpreted that way--especially by this president.  But I've noticed that they've let a lot of your other questions slide by which violates their vulgarity standards, but I guess as long as you're not offensive in a political way, then are fine with it.  I'm sure most conservatives are like that.
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Frankly I believe that would be a foolhardy idea to try. I'm no expert on Chinese law, but I do know that certain forms of protest are not legal, such as flag burning. China has come a great distance from the type of society it once was, but make no mistake, they are not a democratic one.\n\nAt best, you might be deported and at worst, arrested and held indefinately. Don't screw around in a foreign country
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Uh oh, blogs are illegal in China
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This is the result of a long process of sinicization of the world. China has always been regarded as aggressive, therefore, 2/5 of its territory is occupied after the communist regime, break-away taiwan is another proof of the communist regimes stance. Tibet, Xinjiang (East Turkistan) Inner Mongolia are a few among those who are not of yellow races, accordingly, not Han Chinese (ghuo). they are Tibetan buddhists, Turkic Uyghurs or Mongols. Huis are another one represented as a star on the chinese flag. I am afraid political leaders and officials are not well-aware of this policy. They only care for money, capital investments, but not capital punishment, gross human rights abuses committed by the communist regime.
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China is a totalitarian Communist State; and they rule with an iron fist.  They execute 8,000 political prisoners a year in China...think about that for a second...8,000 people a year kille for their political beliefs that differ from the government.  \n\nI'm happy to be an American, and hope we can keep it that way forever.
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Falun Gong is one of the Chinese versions of Buddhism.  It has been around since 1992.  It is somewhat controversial, because the founder, Li Hongzhi, claims to be the Saviour of the current world and salvation only comes through him.  He has also claimed that Falun Gong has prevented a comet from hitting earth and WWIII.\n\nThe torture displays you saw are probably related to the crack down on Falun Gong in China over the last decade.  The communist party was not happy with the growing popularity of Falun Gong especially within the government.  China had a civil war during the 19th century that originated from the growth of a cult religion, so they are very wary of new strong cults growing and they tend to make them illegal before they become too powerful.
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Very interesting.  \nThe CIA has always been a morally amiguous organizition which serves the government not in the interests of right and wrong but in guaranteeing US military might throughout the world.  Ex-Nazis were probably used to make connections and guarantee some flow of information.  \nI especially like that the article points out the sentiment of the war on communism took precedent over right and wrong within our government, however slanted a view that is.