How do you feel about Yahoo turning in Chinese dissidents?
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I think it's absolutely REPREHENSIBLE, and whomever did this at YAHOO should be taken into a dank basement and left their for up to 10 years, without anything but rice, and a BOWL do ones business in which is emptied maybe once a week, then they'll have the SAME conditions that Chinese intellectual prisoners get,it's so BOGUS It makes the BILE rise in my throat. I can't see yahoo doing this, I mean, what would the possible gain be, unless they're so hard up they want a relationship with perhaps the WORST human rights violators since Hitler on the face of this earth..it's unconscionable...seriously, and it REALLY, REALLY makes me sick. I had a great working relationship and friendship with a young person in China, close to my age in his early 30\ns on EBAY selling soccer items. We would talk, exchange ideas, etc. and I was truly worried about his safety after the HORROR stories I've heard about the disgusting oppressive government just coming in the middle of the day and taking someone away, holding a farce of a trial and then proclaiming that "THE LAW HAS WORKED PERFECTLY AGAIN IN CHINA AS THE ACCUSED HAS ADMITTED HIS WRONG DOING" after tons of torture of course, which is NOT limited to the person, it extends to that persons family, and then the government puts the SHAME MACHINE on them, which alienates these souls from their friends, family, neighbours, its horrid, horrifying and I had a chance to visit china and out of principal would NOT do it, they're is NO WAY id go there, as I know my own political views would probably gotten me removed quickly.. that just sits SO wrong with me, so I feel sick now, but to make a long story longer, my friend just stopped emailing one day, and then, I get an email from an account I'd never seen from this guys wife of ONE year, saying they came and got him and he's now in a Chinese prision for 2 years, she coudlnt' speak english and the translation was poor but I got the gist of it and literally wanted to RAMBO the MOTHERFUCKERS who did it,seriously, it wasn't hard to decipher her utter devistation, and it's sickening..they make me sick and if I ever heard of YAHOO doing that, I would NEVER, EVER use them again, EVER..plus, being a news writer for a large paper here in my area, I would definately let as many people know as possible about who did the turning in, and about the Chinese atrocities for things that we wouldn't think twice about. They are watched constantly they cannot talk openly aboout anything, the guy whom I bought items from I had to send the money a special way or his landlord would literally steal it,as he was a government party member, the shite, no that is just so, so wrong it's not EVEN funny, and I hope it wasn't brought up to be funny, because it's actually SICK. So, whoever came up with the question I truly hope you were serious, because your talking about human beings,with families, and lives, and hopes and dreams that could be SNUFFED OUT in ONE second by a heartless, regime hell bent on keeping it's people DOWN, although their public face is completely different if you visit they're you don't see any of the horror, they have people standing all around to keep you from wandering off, etc. So it's all BS, and HORRIBLE HUMAN TREATMENT, and the thought of YAHOO doing that is absolutely REPREHENSIBLE, Yahoo should be a voice and protector of these people, and let them be heard, and heard loudly while protecting their idenity. That's  the Yahoo I would think or hope exsists, and I'd like to know where the information came from about Yahoo or someone associated turning in a chinese person for something they said? It makes no sense.
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OK, first, I totally disagree with your premise regarding human rights.  I don't even think you understand the term.  But I want to address the question about Yahoo:\n\nYahoo has a right to withdraw anything here if it wants to FOR WHATEVER REASON THEY WANT.  It is THEIR site.  They own it.  They allow you to write on it, but they can remove things if they want.  That's how a free country works.  If it is yours, you can do what you want with it.  \n\nIf I wrote things on YOUR website, YOU would have a right to remove things that you didn't like.  Why is that so hard to understand?  You do NOT have any right to publish on someone else's website.  You have a right to publish on your own site and the site of anyone who CHOOSES FREELY to allow you to post on theirs.  YOU DO NOT OWN YAHOO!!!!
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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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Actions explain philosophy. Yahoo selectively chooses news stories and gives them leftist slanted headlines. They are more than happy to work with every despot in the world and use their product to advance that governments perverse agenda. That in and of itself  shows their dirty red liberal agenda.
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YAHOO SEEMS TO BE DELETING THE ACCOUNTS OF THOSE THAT ARE OPPOSED TO THE DEMOCRATIC AND LIBERAL VIEWS. WHY HASN'T JIM W BEEN DELETED THAT GUY SAYS SOME PRETTY CRAZY STUFF YET HE IS A STAUNCH DEMOCRAT. BUT IF YOU AS MUSH AS OPPOSE A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRATIC VIEW YOU GET A VIOLATION NOTICE. THEN YOU GET DELETED. IT IS BECOMING A JOKE. THE POLITICAL FORUM IS ONE SIDED.
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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
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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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In response to a broad government subpoena, Yahoo turned over material about users' searches without protest, and Google is going to court to fight the subpoena.  (The case had nothing to do with terrorism, rather it is an attempt by the Government to demonstrate that lots of porn is missed by porn filters.)  For that reason, I personally am inclined to ues the Google search engine rather than Yahoo's, as an expression of suuport for Google's stance.
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From the BBC news site:\n\nMedia watchdog Reporters Without Borders has accused Yahoo of providing China with information that helped to identify and convict two internet writers. \n\nLi Zhi was jailed for eight years in 2003, after posting comments that criticised official corruption. Writer Shi Tao was sentenced to 10 years in prison in April  2005 after criticising human rights abuses.
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I feel they are traitorous and have turned their back on the United States.  It's all about money.  Yahoo doesn't really care what anyone in America thinks as long as they keep hauling in the big bucks.
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I just got a email from a friend regarding Australia. They are having some immigrant Muslim problems. The radicals are getting out of hand. The government and citizen are dealing with it. One signs said" if you don't like our language, culture and laws get the hell out". \nA few years back they had a real Chinese illegal problem ships dumping of them. They dealt with it rather fast.They cut out chain immigration better now as family unification.\n\nThat is as much as I know on this new immigration anti terrorist issue, but I think that is about as much information that one will get. Most will probably be opinion depending on their side. I have no agenda.
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Ask yourself is it ethical for the US government to waltz into any country and change everything to a democracy even if the people in that country have perhaps never even heard of it.\n\nIts like walking into someones house, they offer you bread, and you say "No, i want chips!". Theyre gonna think your rude and obnoxious, as well as probably never inviting you back again.\n\nSo, if Yahoo goto China and accept the countries tules and regulations, its showing not only obliging, but also that China can trust these foreign companies, making it easier for others to do the same thing.
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Well, your word was censored (thanks Yahoo!), but th eanswer is probably "yes".  So long as everyone involved is kosher 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!
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No..........I don't.........I have a keen outlook on life and don't blame America's faults on anybody but those we elect and ourselves.  \n\nWhat are all these people who post so vehemently going to do when this "mess" is all taken care of by deportation?  Yep......find another outlet.......thats right......haters.....hate.....and this has brought out the BIGGEST  and the (ooh was going to say best.......but I can't call internet haters the best).....umm most apt to post.
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Me, Me, Me! I already sent YA a note demanding they let him back. So have many others, from what I have read. I really have lost my enthusiasm for anything Yahoo.
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Death by shunning or cyber-stoning?\n\nTo some it is more importmant to appear to have all the answers than to let others know when they have looked up the answer.  Just because we cannot see them, they believe that most of us are as stupid and will not know even when we catch them doing this.\n\nI am afraid that this is the price the rest of us must pay to allow for anyone to use this site.  Perhaps if this is reported as abuse everytime they do this and someone catches them, Yahoo could kick them out?