Is it ethical for Yahoo do business in China, if they have to inform to the government about internet use?
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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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Interesting little site.  Though I noticed on http://www.zapchinese.com/Business-Chinese/Vocabulary/Business.htm that revenue should be shou1 ru4, not shou1 run4\n\nIf it can't be seen in China then it's blocked by the government.  Reasons could be:\n\n1) You have bad content that is somehow blacklisted by the govt (I don't think so).\n\n2) You are using shared IP addresses: The IP address of your site is also the IP address of a different site which is blacklisted by the govt. Assuming that they block IP addresses, your site would be blocked too.  Not sure how to check with Chinese authorities, but you might want to check with Yahoo! what other sites use this IP address.  Or simply ask them to give you a different IP address and see if it's ok after that.\n\nHope that helps!
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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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I feel irritated. I find it that today people prefer to be followers than leaders and it is embarrassing to see how such big conglomerates lose all perception of decency just to make money. It is obvious that Yahoo wishes to conquer the China market and for that purpose merged with the Chinese company called Alibaba.com. In that sense, they could not care less about the Chinese people since they are only concerned about being on the right side of the Chinese government. It is ALWAYS about money…. Just look at how Bush calls everyone a terrorist and yet he is ready give the United Arab Emirates control of numerous AMERICAN ports. \nIt is NEVER about the people or democracy or even safety…. it’s about who will receive a monetary benefit from it all.
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All internet use is censored and monitored in China. They ban political criticism of their government, and pornography!
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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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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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in news stories of columbine type massacres they have pointed out how the people were said to have communicated over the Internet.  I hardly see how it would be possible but if the Bushies want to further restrict free speech like in the phone taps they'll figure out a way to do it.  \n\nI can see how you might monitor suspicious subjects but with the mass number of communications over the net don't see how you could ever obtain any useful info.  I can email my uncle that lives across town through a server in Asia, ya know what I mean.
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Well they bend over to China, and edit the Chinese Yahoo! website to the government's liking. Who's to say they aren't doing the same for other countries? the U.S. even?
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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 had heard on NPR a while ago that they actually ARE censoring the internet.  Something about how they have a different version of Google or something and certain sites are not available to users in....I forget which country exactly - but it was in Asia.   Of course, the news report was saying how some hackers were trying to bypass the censorship and how they were putting themselves in danger to access government censored information.
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you cant know.. because yahoo consider it as own privacy
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Ask not what your country can do for you.  Ask what you can do for your country.  Why not publicize the scam on Yahoo and a few other message boards.
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Think about it this way, ten years ago, you wouldn't have been able to access the Internet in China.  Small steps.  Too much and China could collapse into another Russia.
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INTRODUCTION\n\nAlthough I have a deep personal and professional interest in the Internet, I had never really thought of the Internet as an ethical issue until I was first contacted – by e-mail, of course – by Professor Marc Le Menestrel.\n\nMarc is both Assistant Professor of Management at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain and visiting Professor of Business Ethics at the international business school of INSEAD [click here] at Fontainebleau, just outside Paris, France.\n\nAt the time that he first contacted me, Marc was in Singapore which is the newly-opened Asia campus of INSEAD. Together with his senior colleague Professor Henri-Claude de Bettignies, he was running a 16-session course with the intriguing title: "Individual, Business & Society: The Ethical Dilemma”. One of the sessions was called “Who should regulate the Internet?” and this session was focussed on a case study of the LICRA vs Yahoo! legal action in France.\n\nSubsequently, I visited the main INSEAD campus at Fontainebleau, talked with Professors de Bettignies and Le Menestrel, and gave a videotaped interview of the Yahoo! case to Marc Le Menestrel and his American colleague Mark Hunter.\n\nThis exchange has led me to think much more about the issue of Internet ethics. Is it an oxymoron, like ‘military intelligence’ or ‘English cuisine’, or is it simply common sense and, in that sense, an orthodoxy?\n\nThis paper examines three related issues:\n\n    * What is the Internet and how does its past development and current operations relate to questions of ethics?\n\n    * Is there a place for ethics on the Internet and, if so, how would this manifest itself?\n\n    * What does the LICRA vs Yahoo! legal case tell us that is relevant to the debate about Internet ethics? \n\nWHAT IS THE INTERNET?\n\nIt is essential to start with some understanding of the history and the nature of the Internet.\n\nWhere did it come from?\n\n    * The Internet started life in 1969 as the US Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency network (known as ARPAnet). It was designed to provide a distributed, flexible and self-healing command network which would enable the US military to continue operating even if Soviet military missiles took out certain geographical locations on the network.\n\n    * Following its creation as a network for the American military, the Internet – as it became called – evolved into a network for the American academic community, starting with universities and then spreading outwards.\n\n    * Newsgroups, where most child pornography on the Net is located, and chat rooms, where children are most vulnerable to approaches by paedophiles, followed the evolution of the ARAPnet into the Internet, but preceded and are independent of the World Wide Web.\n\n    * In 1989, what is now arguably the most popular feature of the Internet, the World Wide Web, was developed by the British scientist Tim Berners-Lee during his time at CERN in Switzerland.\n\n    * If there was one year in which the Web could be said to have taken off, it was in 1993, when the number of users doubled and the Internet really entered media consciousness and public debate. Today there are around 400 million Internet users world-wide. \n\n[For a much more detailed history of the Internet, see the Hobbes Internet Timeline click here]\n\nWhat are the implications of this evolution for the ethics debate?\n\n   1. The distributed nature of the Internet – based on packet switching and the routing and rerouting of packets along multitudinous networks and nodes – makes any central control of the medium impossible, even if it was thought desirable.\n\n   2. The Internet was developed originally for military and then academic purposes. As originally conceived and used, it was a closed network with specific uses and functions and therefore, initially at least, never provoked a debate about ethical issues in the way that cinema or radio or television
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National Security. The govenment already has your "really private" information because of social security, taxes and so forth. This 'private' info Yahoo would release is more like account info and they would only release info regarding people that talk of anything to do with national security or the breaking of Federal Laws. Using the internet to commit crime is a Federal Offense and it is their duty to help enforce it. Same thing with any telecommunications company. (Phone and internet providers included.)