how does yahoo justify operating in China considering the Chinese Goverment's abysmal record on human rights?
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How can someone punish the citizens in a country by denying them service because of the way their government behaves?
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Organisations such as Reporters Without Borders have made that accusation. However, Yahoo has denied it saying it "never releases information to the Chinese Government."
571301
Good for China\n\nThe problem is that china remains a dictature
716063
The chineese goverment don't want to solve the human rights issues, and in many cases are the cause of them. They're communists you know?
260873
China told google and a bunch of other Internet sites that if they want to be available then they have to obey China's sensor ship laws and quite a number of people in Europe and the Americas think that these Internet companies have given up there morals for money
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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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Yahoo is will lose money if they stop doing business in china. They have stated that giving people some information is better than no information at all, but I think it is probably all about the $$.
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YES!!! Google just went to all kinds of trouble to be active in China. You will most likely not only get arrested, you will just disappear and never be heard from again. Go, enjoy, learn, return, then write. Don't try it there. I do quite a bit of business with China and you better know what you are saying or signing (when it comes to contracts etc.) be very careful of what you have on your computer. It can be confiscated at any time, with or with out your knowledge.
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The Chinese government is one of the most effective governments in today's world, and certainly superior to that farce in America.\nThe Olympic games is an absolutely major event affecting everything, like greater emphasis on teaching English, teaching less-educated Chinese how to be polite, improving buildings and roads in and around Beijing, and generally working hard to provide traditional Chinese hospitality to all visitors.\nThere will be no limitations on photography, and I guess that the web blockage will be cleared. There are ways round it anyway.
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i don't know, but china is under communist rule, and i think it's corrupt and absolutely stupid...
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So Yahoo can have a favorable business climate.  They prefer the almighty dollar to a people's right of self-determination.
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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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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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Rule of law from the weakest person to the strongest should be a goal of every country, unfortunately, the Chinese communist party is threatened by the "spiritual" movement Falung Gong, so it's possible these acts are condoned tacitly to "scare "citizens back into the communist fold. Any acts like these, if true, would be signs of desperation. The Chinese government will be on it's best behavior until the Olympics in '08, then I believe there may be great confrontation in China. Their economy is more and more capitalist, the people want and are getting, to a certain degree, a more free and materialistic lifestyle, yet the Communist party still holds sole political power. At some point one will have to give way to the other.
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it's nice to see business opportunity around yahoo answers, however there is big issue of political restriction on raw materials in both countries, and you do need strong business partner in China. I am just wondering if you have even heard any similar cases successed? It might bring you some ideas.
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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 - 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.