Did you know Yahoo actively censers the internet from people of China?
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A company's raison d'etre is almost always profit motivated. Listed companies under pressure to reap profits, are further accountable to their shareholders, who expect dividends and capital returns from their investments (Stocks, Shares, Unit trusts, and so on.)\n\nSecondary but of equal importance, is the required compliance to various regulations of the Country, Stock exchange, Companies Act and any other provisions laid down by the Government.\n\nDoing business in all countries including England and US, require regulatory compliance on all forms of mass media. \n\nWhilst regulatory requirements of national security of concern in capitalist markets, the main motivation comes from trade protectionism enforced through federal and/or state legislation.\n\nChina, on the otherhand, has a political system which is very much intergral to the free market policy. So long as the Status Quo is maintained with the existing power structure of governance not under threat (perceived and real), all other functions play second fiddle.\n\nChina's laws happens to be more glaring that they uphold the Collective over Individual freedom.\n\nThe reason of political sensitivity is specific with no uncertain terms, backed by severe penalties, dubbed by media as the Great Firewall of China. General context (2)(3)(4) to provide on the severity of the issue.\n\nThe regulations are spelt out in “2. Censorship by Internet Content Providers: Delegating censorship to business”, paragraphs One through Six. (1)\n\n\nAbridged: Notably Paragraphs Three through Six are specific, with One and Two, providing provisio as follows:\n\n- Para. Three, and Key to it, places the Action and Onus on the business to police the site on behalf of the government, “taken down manually by company employees.” “To date, Yahoo! is the only Western company known to have signed the pledge (as will be discussed further in Section IV, Part 1).”\n\n- Para. Four, provides for any breaches to employees and Company that may result in revocation of the company’s license. To avoid a breach, services maintain lists that will raise a red flag for manual removal.\n\n- Para. Five, refers to search engines similarly follow suit. Additionally, “the user is prevented from knowing that the forbidden content exists at all. This is a deliberate choice made by the operator of the search engine.”\n\n- Para. Six, contained within the notes.\n\n- Para. One, spells out the purpose to place accountability on private business to prevent politically sensitive and objectionable content information.\n\n- Para. Two, requires licenses to be displayed.
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Media Relations Home - Info Center Home  \nThe History of Yahoo! - How It All Started...\nYahoo! began as a student hobby and evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, find and access information and purchase things. The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. Before long they were spending more time on their home-brewed lists of favorite links than on their doctoral dissertations. Eventually, Jerry and David's lists became too long and unwieldy, and they broke them out into categories. When the categories became too full, they developed subcategories ... and the core concept behind Yahoo! was born. \n\nThe Web site started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki" - both named after legendary sumo wrestlers. \n\nJerry and David soon found they were not alone in wanting a single place to find useful Web sites. Before long, hundreds of people were accessing their guide from well beyond the Stanford trailer. Word spread from friends to what quickly became a significant, loyal audience throughout the closely-knit Internet community. Yahoo! celebrated its first million-hit day in the fall of 1994, translating to almost 100 thousand unique visitors. \n\nDue to the torrent of traffic and enthusiastic reception Yahoo! was receiving, the founders knew they had a potential business on their hands. In March 1995, the pair incorporated the business and met with dozens of Silicon Valley venture capitalists. They eventually came across Sequoia Capital, the well-regarded firm whose most successful investments included Apple Computer, Atari, Oracle and Cisco Systems. They agreed to fund Yahoo! in April 1995 with an initial investment of nearly $2 million. \n\nRealizing their new company had the potential to grow quickly, Jerry and David began to shop for a management team. They hired Tim Koogle, a veteran of Motorola and an alumnus of the Stanford engineering department, as chief executive officer and Jeffrey Mallett, founder of Novell's WordPerfect consumer division, as chief operating officer. They secured a second round of funding in Fall 1995 from investors Reuters Ltd. and Softbank. Yahoo! launched a highly-successful IPO in April 1996 with a total of 49 employees. \n\nToday, Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 345 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and reaches the largest audience worldwide. The company also provides online business and enterprise services designed to enhance the productivity and Web presence of Yahoo!'s clients. These services include Corporate Yahoo!, a popular customized enterprise portal solution; audio and video streaming; store hosting and management; and Web site tools and services. The company's global Web network includes 25 World properties. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo! has offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada and the United States. \n \n\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Yahoo! began as a student hobby and evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, find and access information and purchase things. The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. Before long they were spending more time on their home-brewed lists of favorite links than on their doctoral dissertations. Eventually, Jerry and David's lists became too long and unwieldy, and they broke them out into categories. When the categories became too full, they developed subcategories ... and the core concept behind Yahoo! was born. \n\nThe Web site started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki" - both named after legendary sumo wrestlers. \n\nJerry and David soon found they were not alone in wanting a single place to find useful Web sites. Before long, hundreds of people were accessing their guide from well beyond the Stanford trailer. Word spread from friends to what quickly became a significant, loyal audience throughout the closely-knit Internet community. Yahoo! celebrated its first million-hit day in the fall of 1994, translating to almost 100 thousand unique visitors. \n\nDue to the torrent of traffic and enthusiastic reception Yahoo! was receiving, the founders knew they had a potential business on their hands. In March 1995, the pair incorporated the business and met with dozens of Silicon Valley venture capitalists. They eventually came across Sequoia Capital, the well-regarded firm whose most successful investments included Apple Computer, Atari, Oracle and Cisco Systems. They agreed to fund Yahoo! in April 1995 with an initial investment of nearly $2 million. \n\nRealizing their new company had the potential to grow quickly, Jerry and David began to shop for a management team. They hired Tim Koogle, a veteran of Motorola and an alumnus of the Stanford engineering department, as chief executive officer and Jeffrey Mallett, founder of Novell's WordPerfect consumer division, as chief operating officer. They secured a second round of funding in Fall 1995 from investors Reuters Ltd. and Softbank. Yahoo! launched a highly-successful IPO in April 1996 with a total of 49 employees. \n\nToday, Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 345 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and reaches the largest audience worldwide. The company also provides online business and enterprise services designed to enhance the productivity and Web presence of Yahoo!'s clients. These services include Corporate Yahoo!, a popular customized enterprise portal solution; audio and video streaming; store hosting and management; and Web site tools and services. The company's global Web network includes 25 World properties. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo! has offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada and the United States.
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The website yahoo.com was founded by \nDavid Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1994.\nPresent Chairman, CEO, Director is Terry Samel.\n\nHope i have addressed to ur Q.
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http://world.yahoo.com/
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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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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 is in the Far East? WOW! Try a simple web search.
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You connect to International Yahoo! with your Internet Service Provider (ISP).\nTelkomnet?
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i never knew yahoo had that. They have a lil bit of everything sheesh
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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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Yahoo has been around almost as long as the net itself.\nThey know what they are doing and run quite well on my end.\n\nI'll guarantee it's your computer ;)
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Yahoo! is a public corporation and is thus owned by its stockholders
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There are several:\nYuanmou, Lantian, Zhoukoudian, Hexian all within China; two sites in Java.
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maybe hotmail is filtered by the firewall of china..
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Yahoo offers a variety of internet materials to its users and the benefit received by China was only incidental.
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I didn't know Yahoo did it.  I know Google did it.  I don't approve, but I understand.  It was the only way they could get the Chinese business, and we can't influence anything over there if we have no presence over there, even if it is censored for now.  Chinese hackers will be smart enough to find the information and get it out to the people.