What can I do to show that I don’t support the action and business the Yahoo and Google are doing in China?
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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....
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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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China also would like to help but can't because of its close proximity to India who might be suspicious... you're on you own sorry!
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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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Three reasons - money, money and money.\nYahoo! knows that by helping the government, they will continue to permit Yahoo! to tap into the potential market in China.
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yes although i was reading on CNN.com that china or was it some other Oriental country was blocking out certain sites that deal with Capitalism
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In the United States we have a Constitution and Bill of Rights that protect our freedoms, yet in China the government is more like a dictatorship and what they say, goes.  I heard about his before, and yes, the government has absolutely restricted google use in certain parts of china because they do not want the people to learn how to overthrow or revolt against the govt.  Additionally, they dont want the people to see how good the rest of the world has it - this would give them much more of a reason to revolt against the chinese govt.
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Because the Chinese govt. has opened its country to foreign capitalist business, and if Yahoo wants to do business in China they must play by the rules that the Chinese govt has set even if it means the good guys get caught. But money is money and that is the bottom line.
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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
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Because Yahoo does'nt want to extend their total services and Agreement rules abroad. Too much Paper work for them.
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Three reasons:  1) China filters out American content.  2) They don't want to admit they received American content.  3)  How come what doesn't get through?
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Most likely you can't.  You can try and set your browser to use a proxy server that is not located in China, but I bet they've even thought of a way to stop that too.\n\nOtherwise if you have access to Windows 2000/2003 server which is located outside of China, remotely connect to it via Remote Desktop and then from the browser inside the server view the web site.  This is a rather painful way of doing things, but the govt has made it difficult on purpose.
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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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Yahoo must have nothing big to cover up, or on the other hand cooperation with the government can pay off later when you need it.  Google could also just be more for the constitution than yahoo
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Hehe... You are so funny dude...=)\n\nWell I agree... Try remove the application on your Control Panel on Add or Remove Program.. Then download a new one.\n\nIt's worth it. Unless you want to write in Chinese again. Haha!
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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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Okay... \n1.) You are an idiot. Yahoo are the evil capitalists here, they're the ones who sell out, they're the ones who offer site better placement in search results if they pay money.\n2.) You're an idiot. MSN is run by Microsoft (But I'm assuming you already know that), the even more shitty company that brings you computers that are impossible to handle or work with, Game systems that are put together from parts they practically buy right of the shelves (not to mention that they don't even make enough 360's to bring around, causing global chaos), they're the ones who try to think of new ideas... But google beats them to it.\n\nGoogle's products are better. \nTheir search engine is better than Yahoo's or MSN's. (and yes, I do realize that Yahoo is powered by Google, the difference is Yahoo sells out. See Above.)\nTheir browser (firefox) is better than IE.\nYahoo actually went to China first. \nWhat you don't see is that Google is doing the world a favor. Google paved the way for the internet... and they still are.