Why did yahoo give access to the China.gov. to the e-mails of a pro-democrac. activist now doing ten years?
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Because our government and our business see China as nothing more than a new market and has no consideration of ethics.  \n\nYahoo executives should be burned alive.
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Yahoo is the neo-con mafia
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The information they handed over was NOT private (as everyone is under the misconception that it was).  People should actually read the Terms of Use Agreement before signing up.  Yahoo! expressly states that they will cooperate with government authorities, including giving them requested information.  For them to have 'fought' would have flown in the face of their clearly stated principles.
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Research into the mainland Chinese Internet censorship has shown that blocked websites include:\nNews from many foreign sources, especially websites which include forums. BBC News, Hong Kong News sources are heavily censored.\nWebsites, news and information about \nTibetan independence\nFalun Gong\nDalai Lama (Restricted)\nTaiwan and Taiwan independence\nTiananmen Square protests of 1989\nHuman rights, freedom of speech, democracy\nHong Kong. Yahoo Hong Kong is blocked.\nPornography\nReligious websites, The official website of the Catholic Church is blocked.\nSites critical of top Chinese leaders or those expressing views different from the Chinese government\nOverseas Chinese websites\nTechnical sites\nWikimedia: Wikimedia sites, including Wikipedia, have recently been blocked for the third time. See Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China.\nSourceForge: SourceForge was blocked in 2002. The blocking was released in 2003, but as of January 2006, it may have been blocked again.\nFreeBSD.org: FreeBSD.org was banned since December 2005. \nPHP.net: PHP.net was banned by China Telecom (southern China) according to some users. Free Internet services\ngeocities\nzoneedit (free DNS service, one of the servers blocked)\nblogspot (however, blogger.com is not blocked)\n\nI don't agree with it and it shows how fragile is the communist state. Anyone who things is an enemy of the state because he will eventually find out how erroneous the communist ideology is.
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He may have been banned for that.. i dont think it is in the "legal" book for yahoo..
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It was my understanding that the gov't requested the info ... not that yahoo just gave the info on their own
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http://www.emailthepresident.com/
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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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LEARN FROM THIS, IDIOTS!!!\n\nYou abuse your freedoms, lie about the government and laugh about abuses.\n\nPlease notice that this is not allowed around the world.\n\nStill think it's funny when someone has his rights trampled upon?\n\nFor Yahoo to do business in China, they have to make compromises.  CHINA IS NOT A FREE COUNTRY.\n\nThose are the rules.  Would it be better to have no Internet in China?  Sometimes you have to compromise.
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whitehouse.gov.  There is a link to e-mail the First Lady.
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That's obviously a load of old rubbish, however I know there is a scientific basis and evidence of some big loser who stole someone's identity and asked dumb questions about 'do you like philipino girls', then get all smug and righteous about the Yahoo rules when that person gets suspended. Remind you of anyone? *sniff sniff* \n\nI can STILL smell hypocrisy and it's very close!
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Basically, because the Internet encompasses so many different viewpoints, religions, opinions, and ideas, what Yahoo has created by allowing access to anyone, is a haven for the sane, insane, prejudiced, tolerant, Christians, non Christians, liberals, conservatives (you get the idea). When they disagree or annoy each other the abuse button gets clicked and the sheer number of reports makes it impossible to track and provide customer service for each one. \n\nLet us hope that they at least give consideration to reports before completely canceling an account.
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This guy's actually got a point. I'm not so sure on the specifics of any yahoo involvement, but I do know for certain that the Chinese government is very oppressive to anyone who questions its motives or policies. Instances may have tailed off over recent years, but beatings and torture are still a regular part of protocol there. America simply chooses to ignore it because we're more concerned with preserving our good economic relations with China, even though a lot of the cheap labor we outsource there is indeed done by slaves. We really should wake up and start seeing the truth.
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I don't know what yahoo-cop is but I think the reason they reply is because its probably a computer generated email...just a thought anyway
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Yahoo Homepage has current events, governmental issues, and news.
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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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Its true.  Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft all support Communist China.  You would think that Businesses that have prospered becuase of the nation they were founded, and the freedoms they had in developing they're services, would at least not support communistic ideals but you can tell from all the news stories over the past month or two that, they all do in fact agree, support and abide by the Communist Ideology in China, all for Money.\n\nCapitalism at its best!\n\nWouldn't it be funny if Yahoo deleted this question?  LOL