If Yahoo! aides the Communist government in China, helping to silence revolutionaries, is yahoo communists?
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No.  The reasoning in your question is illogical.
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China is a sovereign nation..they can have any laws they like..and Yahoo has to follow them...\n\nIt is not like Yahoo is trying to clamp down on revolution....\n\nThe problem is the Chinese government..NOT any individual company....
479154
Yes, this is a communist day!  Communist are using illegals on this day!  Most of the people boycotting on this day don't even have any idea about this!\n\nCommunist-led coalition is supporting a pro-illegal alien boycott of work, school and shopping on May 1st. Make sure to save up any big shopping you've got planned in the future for May 1st!\n\nStrange how this "coalition" names themselves after the far left, pro-terrorist, hate-America-blame-America-first organization that exists in America today: ANSWER \n\nOr is it a coincidence? Note the communist/socialist/pro-terrorist organizations leading this coalition: ANSWER's steering committee includes the Free Palestine Alliance, the Partnership for Civil Justice, the Nicaragua Network, the Korea Truth Commission, the Muslim Student Association, the Mexico Solidarity Network and the Party for Socialism and Liberation. \n\nAlso please note the pro-Communist movement's "May Day" celebrations are held on May 1st in recognition of the Soviet Union's struggle for the communist laborer.
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They are a bunch of conservative, money grabbing tyrants that will allow Oprah to break their community rules but cut down on anyone who offers the truth about the disgraceful, money grabbing idiots we have in the government.\n\nEdit: For instance look at the idiot above that is cloning JimW and myself. Have they acted? Yahoo is just a joke institution.
251825
Rule of law from the weakest person to the strongest should be a goal of every country, unfortunately, the Chinese communist party is threatened by the "spiritual" movement Falung Gong, so it's possible these acts are condoned tacitly to "scare "citizens back into the communist fold. Any acts like these, if true, would be signs of desperation. The Chinese government will be on it's best behavior until the Olympics in '08, then I believe there may be great confrontation in China. Their economy is more and more capitalist, the people want and are getting, to a certain degree, a more free and materialistic lifestyle, yet the Communist party still holds sole political power. At some point one will have to give way to the other.
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china isn't communism. it's totalitarianism capitalism.\n\nMost people are idiots about communism and don't even know what it is.
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Yahoo in China operates according to Chinese law. China's government set requirements for Yahoo to operate and Yahoo's options were either comply with the requirements, or not offer any service whatsoever.\n\nYahoo in the US operates according to US law. The French government had a problem with something posted on an AMERICAN Yahoo site. So Yahoo told the French that it has no jurisdiction over American servers. And BTW, the US Court told Yahoo that the US wasn't getting involved. So, Yahoo still faces the fines in France, if the French want to try and collect.\n\nAs to the guy whose site was shut down, we don't have all the facts. But Yahoo has a right to enforce their own internal policies.
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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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Well they bend over to China, and edit the Chinese Yahoo! website to the government's liking. Who's to say they aren't doing the same for other countries? the U.S. even?
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you'd have to find the original article/story that they've censored and then check it out on the chinese internet to know that.  \n\nit's pretty creepy though - a bit like Winston working for Big Brother to change the past and people's perceptions.  eugh.
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If the USA govt seek help from Yahoo to hunt down someone that can threaten its national security, should yahoo comply? your answer will answered the original question.
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Would it be better to have no internet in China?\n\nTHOSE ARE THE RULES.\n\nThe dissidents know it.  (We do it to pedophiles here.)\n\nSometimes, to bring about change, you have to compromise.\n\nMaybe now, it's not so funny when you shoot off your mouth and hide behind your "right to free speech".
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Possibly Yahoo! People.
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Why shouldn't they be, isn't it discrimination if they don't?\nCapitalists are still worried to death about Communists,and rightly so (esp USA).\nI wonder why (apart from the stuff they have read in the capitalist news papers and watched on the capitalist TV)\nI don't think capitalists and communists can ever reach a mutual understanding. (Religion is the opium of the working classes) some one once said! he was right. Both sides have committed atrocities, both sides have done some good, is the question meant to prove this sort of reaction?
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i would rather you report my answer as abuse and have them read it.\n\ni do not support the corprate policy of blocking information at any level for any person over the age of 18 so with that said yahoo please let china see everything i do and be pop up advertized to death and the same goes for google you evil corprate types willing to sell your soul to make a buck .
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The Chinese Government is ruled by the Communist Party.  The details of the government are included on the attached site.
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You mean like China (they limit Internet usage)?  They have plenty to gain.  If you can keep a population ignorant, you can control them, and that is what communism is all about.