Why is Yahoo violating human rights in China for the sake of profits?
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I believe you have answered your own question. \nFOR THE SAKE OF PROFITS.\nAnd on that note, what the sh!t are you talking about?
1012823
The compensation they receive is that they can actually get people to visit Yahoo! in China. Without that compliance, no one there could visit the Yahoo! site.
579325
Yahoo just wants this place to be popular. They care little about actual discussion or rights. It's just the whole nature of business in general... a business will do anything that will promote its product and it will avoid anything that will do nothing for it. \n\nRace discussions are generally highly subjective and the negative risks of such a discussion outweigh any positive gain for Yahoo. Thus, they ban it. Rights of individuals has nothing to do with it.
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As a Vietnam veteran, I find Yahoo offensive for even considering removing anything about those who did not return and are still interned somewhere in Vietnam or Laos! Yahoo should fire the person that took that question off as they obviously lack respect for those who gave their lives in at least fighting Communism, not a war on oil!\n\nLike I said, Repubs don't care about America or American \nworkers! That is clear by outsourcing then crying about those who are no longer employed here being lazy! Their bottom line is their pocketbook as evidenced by 500 new MILLIONAIRES directly from taking money earmarked for the war in Iraq and putting it in their pocket! That would have NEVER happened in WWII!\n\nGee another Hanoi...George! Well he finally got to see what it looked like from the air though it took him 40 years!
324003
Because Yahoo does'nt want to extend their total services and Agreement rules abroad. Too much Paper work for them.
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The big issue is freedom of speech and freedom of information.\nIn the United States, anyone is allowed to see or write essentially whatever they want.\nIn the privacy of their own home, Americans have no restrictions on what kind of content or news sources they can access.\nChina is very against dissent of any kind.  The government is worried that if the people are given unrestricted internet access they will be reading anti-government or anti-nationalist journals, newspapers, etc.  It also allows the people an (essentially) anonymous way to speak to each other rapidly.  \nSo right now companies like Google are starting to break into the Chinese market.  And Google seems to be bending to China's wishes to filter out content they don't want their people to be able to access.  A lot of Americans feel this kind of governmental control of information is unethical or even against the whole idea of the internet.
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What is their choice really?  Either they do what China tells them or they offer nothing to the people there.  There is no way for them to improve conditions for the people of China if the government blocks and removes them?  Better to sacrafice and be seen then not sacrafice and be eliminated.  \n\nPeople think there is censorship and a lack of privacy here; have no idea what freedoms they enjoy compared to the people of China.
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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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Because you dont have the right on a privete sight, it is in an international format also (has no bearing).\n Would you let me in your house spit on your floor, curse at your kids, kick your dog, eat your food, heck sleep in your bed. It's your house and you are king as Yahoo is it king of its sight.
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No, Yahoo is a publically traded company, so Yahoo is owned by its shareholders.\n\nOf course, some people in the CIA might own shares of Yahoo, so there's nothing that says that individuals in the CIA might not own a tiny fraction of Yahoo!
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It makes it so China becomes a superpower because they have such cheap labor.  The companies there pay their people pennies a day, and force them to get abortions for the company.\n\nBasically whichever country has the worst human rights, makes it so they have the best economy because all the companies want to set up where they can treat people so cruelly to make more money.
849794
No shitt, it's just the big wigs trying to compete with china's cheap labor at the expense of our country's values.\nI'm sick of it. I think any company doing this should be shut down and the owners prosecuted
1052605
All internet use is censored and monitored in China. They ban political criticism of their government, and pornography!
400019
It surely violates democratic principles. China, however, is not a democracy.\n\nGoogle's business model coincides with the government that the business works in - for example, the US version of google is unrestricted... Why? Because of our freedom. \n\nChina doesn't have similar freedom. What Google is doing in China would be illegal here - what Google is doing here is equally illegal in China.
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I feel irritated. I find it that today people prefer to be followers than leaders and it is embarrassing to see how such big conglomerates lose all perception of decency just to make money. It is obvious that Yahoo wishes to conquer the China market and for that purpose merged with the Chinese company called Alibaba.com. In that sense, they could not care less about the Chinese people since they are only concerned about being on the right side of the Chinese government. It is ALWAYS about money…. Just look at how Bush calls everyone a terrorist and yet he is ready give the United Arab Emirates control of numerous AMERICAN ports. \nIt is NEVER about the people or democracy or even safety…. it’s about who will receive a monetary benefit from it all.
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china is not better than any other country.  however, google still wants to be used by the millions of people in china living under a communist form of goverment.  so in order for google to benifet, they must make some changes.
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Unfortunately freedom of speech means we have to put up with jerks. \n\nHowever if there are abusive posts just keep reporting them till the writer of them gets barred. If it wasn't long ago that you reported it then maybe no one at yahoo has seen your complaint yet. \nAll you can do is avoid disgusting people, I suppose it's not our place to judge or condemn but that doesn't mean we have to listen to racism etc.