How does Yahoo justify denying full Internet access to the Chinese?
607693
They were just following Chinese law.  This is of course no different Nazi's in Germany rounding up the Jews. Along with denouncing Jewish sympathizers.  After all those people were just following German law.  \n\nJust because a government creates a law does not mean that the law is just [morally right].  Especially when then government in control is a coercive government that uses brutal acts of violence and torture to stay in power and is not run by the people.
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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.
477992
I don't totally understand what you mean. If you mean a dial-up internet connection, you can't get that free (and you wouldn't want dial-up in the days of broadband: dial-up is slower and will cost more money because you pay for using your phone line.) And as for the last bit of your question, I still don't understand... any ISP will give you access to Yahoo! (or any other site for that matter.) If you mean you want Yahoo as an ISP, you could use BT Yahoo Broadband.
519371
I wanted to know the same thing, as it keeps appearing on my fiewall to accept or deny access - I always deny:\n\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/search?p=ycommon+Exe+Module&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&fr=FP-tab-web-t&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8
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I'd be apprehensive going to some "other" sites, especially one that mentions "Warez" and suchlike.\n\nWhy not go direct to YAHOO's site, or 1 of these other reputable ones: http://del.icio.us/Eagle_Kiwi/webbased
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The problem is NOT with Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google. In fact, I would say that these companies have in some small way helped China. The problem is with the Chinese Government. \n\nYahoo, Microsoft, and Google are following the law of the country in which they are operating. It is no different then when these companies...and others, enforce U.S. policies. They are doing what they are meant to do...Provide a service to the people as best as they are capable of doing. \n\nWhy do I think these companies, and other like them, are helping the Chinese? Because until recently, the Internet was completely off limits to the people. The general Chinese public was forbidden access. Now, however restricted it may be, they have access.  This will open some doors previously closed. In time, and very slowly, the regulations will be loosened and the Chinese people will have more and more freedoms. Why am I certain of this?  Because not that many years ago, most religious practices were seriously looked down on by the Chinese Government. Thousands of temples were destroyed, and tens of thousands of monks, priests and lay practitioners were beaten, killed and forced to abandoner their practices. (At least openly.) Today, the Chinese government is rebuilding many of these temples and most religions have been permitted to rebuild. \n\nI believe that in time, open access to the wealth of information on the Internet will be permitted with much fewer regulations.
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Proxy servers are designed to filter out the content they do not want you to access.\nCertain Ports are also shut down.   I am suprised they did not shut down the ports that Yahoo uses....\n\nGood Luck!
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While I'm not sure on many of the specifics, I do know that google and other major webportals have been criticized for assisting the Chinese governments censorship efforts.  In the end it comes down to money.  With 1.3billion people China is the largest growth market in the world and the company that lands the state contract for whatever service they are pushing will make billions in the long term.\n\nYes it’s perfectly “legal”, China is a sovereign nation with their own laws and civil protections (not sure what these are, guardrails maybe?).  It seems wrong to assist them from a Western ethical viewpoint, at least to me.  Corporations however are rarely moral and seldom very ethical entities, especially when the government isn’t encouraging them to be in the form of huge fines.\n\nRegards,\nArmus
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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Internet censorship in China
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Many sites can be blocked within China.  Or, your connection there is not fast enough to access a site from abroad.  It might be timing out because it takes too long to display the page.  It is hard to tell which is the problem since the "not found" page could be displayed in either case.\n\nClick the "refresh" or "reload" button on any page that does not display for you.  If that does not work, you can try Coral Cache proxy.  To use it for www.freewebpage.org you would change the address to http://www.freewebpage.org.nyud.net:8080\n\nFor any other website, append .nyud.net:8080 to the top level address.   It won't always work but often it does.
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just read this:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_mainland_China
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Because China doesn't trust the internet.
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Okay... \n1.) You are an idiot. Yahoo are the evil capitalists here, they're the ones who sell out, they're the ones who offer site better placement in search results if they pay money.\n2.) You're an idiot. MSN is run by Microsoft (But I'm assuming you already know that), the even more shitty company that brings you computers that are impossible to handle or work with, Game systems that are put together from parts they practically buy right of the shelves (not to mention that they don't even make enough 360's to bring around, causing global chaos), they're the ones who try to think of new ideas... But google beats them to it.\n\nGoogle's products are better. \nTheir search engine is better than Yahoo's or MSN's. (and yes, I do realize that Yahoo is powered by Google, the difference is Yahoo sells out. See Above.)\nTheir browser (firefox) is better than IE.\nYahoo actually went to China first. \nWhat you don't see is that Google is doing the world a favor. Google paved the way for the internet... and they still are.
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You may need to adjust your security settings. Yahoo may restrict some of the sites you are trying to access.
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This is on the part of the server. For example if I lock a part of my site from being accessed by people on the internet the server will tell anyone trying to access it it is forbidden.\n\n\nIt's probably an error on the site. It's not just you.
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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.