Can someone please explain the philosophy of Yahoo's China policy to me?
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It probably goes something like this: "When operating in a country, we obey the laws of that country."
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Would it be better to have no internet in China?\n\nTHOSE ARE THE RULES.\n\nThe dissidents know it.  (We do it to pedophiles here.)\n\nSometimes, to bring about change, you have to compromise.\n\nMaybe now, it's not so funny when you shoot off your mouth and hide behind your "right to free speech".
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The United Nations is a giant "paper-tiger" that is "all looks and no substance". Ask Taiwan about how they aren't considered a sovereign nation because China doesn't want them to be..and how the U.N just plays along to not upset the big scary China! The United Nations are held very high on the limousine liberal scale because they share the same methods...\nTell it how it should be, while disregarding factual outcomes..because it is always better to be viewed as wanting to help then ever actually helping at all...\nSo, I say dont give the U.N. the satisfaction of wondering what they think...form your own opinion
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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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Yahoo have no idea what the China government agency going to do with it when they released all the data about the individual in China. China required all internet content company such as Yahoo to released the data and they have no choices if they want to do business in China.
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As all of them, Yahoo, Microsoft/MSN, Google, etc expressed at congressional hearing, when they operate in a country, they abide by the law of that country.  Yes, your interpretation is correct, the almighty dollar wins.\n\nNeither of the above companies will pull out as is the case with you, having too much biz tied to pull out.  Disgusted as one may be, the almighty dollar trumps again.
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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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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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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,,, according to an article posted on 'Naver News'\n\nIt says that Yahoo! asked Naver for their 지식KIN system \n\nand leaned how the system works. So, its just some kind of\n\napplication,,, just that it is in English,,,,\n[by the way, I am also one of 지식KIN user and use 'whc007' as my main ID]
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China is a totalitarian Communist State; and they rule with an iron fist.  They execute 8,000 political prisoners a year in China...think about that for a second...8,000 people a year kille for their political beliefs that differ from the government.  \n\nI'm happy to be an American, and hope we can keep it that way forever.
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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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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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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! justified providing Tao's personal emails to Chinese police by arguing that it was only following local (Chinese) laws since the emails were stored in servers in China. \n\nHowever, Many ask why Yahoo! uses servers in China knowing that it will be legally obliged to disclose private information of its    email service users to the government, which may lead to its email users being jailed as was the case with Mr. Tao.\n\nWhether this was morally justified, I leave this for you to judge!
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No. Yahoo has been having a few issues as of late. It happened in a few groups I use that are not political in nature.\nBTW It's Martial Law.
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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.