When is Yahoo going to stop revealing people's identity to the chinese governement?
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i would be curious what people think of this in comparison to illegal immigrants in the US.  Yahoo will change their policy when the government changes theirs.  or are you suggesting that yahoo break the law?
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China is a communist dicatorship where there is no such thing as free speech and seeking information about the outside world is a crime.\n\nHu went to see Bill Gates because Microsoft is a bigger threat to the Chinese government than the US is. Yahoo, Google, and all computer programs that originate outside China are a massive problem for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, and Hu is trying to tread a very fine line between allowing some restricted internet access and armed insurrection.
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Yahoo is not a government.  Yahoo is not government controlled, or government sponsored.  Yahoo can have a different policy, but doesn't.  \n\nI like the way that Yahoo Answers monitors and manages this system.  \n\nTHANK YOU YAHOO!
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According to news sources, it seems that the kind of information given to the Government under subpoena was a sample of search queries without any individual user identifying information.\n\nI would guess that it is the kind of information disclosed by Yahoo and Google popular search queries only including all kinds of queries, just not popular queries.\n\nhttp://buzz.yahoo.com/\nhttp://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html\n\nHere is Yahoo's privacy policy:\n\nhttp://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/
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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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Not only that, Yahoo also helped the Chinese government to crack down on opposition bloggers, and actively helps China to censor the web. (searchs on words like "democracy", "human rights" and "tianmenn square massacre" are filtered and/or simply not allowed).\n\nIt shows you how these corporations don't really care about democracy, freedom of speech, or any kind of ethics but just about their private profits and interests.\nThe saddest part is that most "common people" just don't care to learn about or exercise their rights. Most people don't even know or care about things like the CIA COINTELPRO program, the Echelon System (a global communication-monitoring system that both Australia, the US and the European Union have admitted as real), the Northwoods operation, etc, etc.\nAs always, people realize that they are being screwed up and decide to react only when it's too late.
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CENSORSHIP IS A BITCH. thanks yahoo for "allowing" freedom of speech!
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I think you can't because yahoo protects its members privacy and only displays people who choose to let themselves searchable.
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I don't really think it has to do with "hiding" who we are.\nIt's that e-mail is cluttered enough without posting your address all over the web.
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if you report them they will block them and delete their Yahoo ID's.
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They do not allow free discussion of its people.  They are concerned that the democratic movement would use the internet to create widespread interrest in democracy and challenge their control of the Chinese people.\n\nAny companies that operate in China is subject to its laws.  Google and Yahoo are operating in China and is being forced to follow its restrictive laws.
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China and Japan do this on a regular basis.  Sadly there isn't any software that I know of that can get around this!  It's blocked at a local level, most often by those in power.
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Seems like Yahoo /\nGeocities is aware of it. That website is no longer available!
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Don't let it bother you.  It's a last ditch effort to justify ILLEGAL actions.  The race card no longer holds any meaning here.
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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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you cant know.. because yahoo consider it as own privacy
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Everything about the Internet company Yahoo! screams fun – from the name itself to the bright purple colors, to the endless array of online services and distractions. Around the world they are associated with creativity, innovation and the free flow of ideas.\nI think that’s why it is so shocking to learn that Yahoo! has colluded with the repressive Chinese government to help identify Internet dissidents who were subsequently thrown in jail.\nI urge you to join me today by expressing outrage at Yahoo!’s participation in human rights abuses in China.\nThe details are shocking. Investigations by Amnesty International and others show that:\n• At the Chinese government’s request Yahoo! routinely censors search engine results \nin China -- without disclosing that the censorship has happened.\n• Yahoo!-disclosed private user information has allegedly been used to persecute at\nleast three political dissidents in China.\n• In one case, that of journalist Shi Tao, information turned over by Yahoo! was \nsubmitted as evidence in a trial that ended in a 10-year prison sentence. A primary\npiece of evidence was a private email Mr. Shi sent to the United States from\nhis Yahoo! email account.\nWe don’t really know how many voices have been silenced through Yahoo!’s collusion, or how many people have been rounded up. What we do know, and why we need your help, is that Yahoo! cannot hide behind the supposed realpolitik of working in China.\nRecent examinations of four American Internet technology companies operating in China– Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, and Cisco -- suggest that Yahoo! has most actively aided repressive forces in China, by helping to jail political dissidents.\nNew York Times columnist and consistent voice for human rights Nicholas Kristof concludes “Yahoo! sold its soul and is a national disgrace.”\nYahoo! is not immune to public condemnation. Your demands for change will get the Internet giant’s attention.\nAmnesty demands that Yahoo! use its influence to secure prisoner of conscience Shi Tao's release and to stop any actions that could undermine human rights in any country in which it operates.\nEvery voice makes a difference. Please take action today.\nThanks for all you do.\nSincerely,\nBill Schulz\n\nExecutive Director