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Yahoo Agrees to Censor Chinese Portal
Bonker writes: "This article at Salon indicates that Yahoo, as part of a larger pledge to 'purge the Web of content that China's communist government deems subversive', has agreed to censor 'pernicious information that may jeopardize state security and disrupt social stability' from its Chinese portal. Yahoo is one of about 300 other ISPs and websites who have signed the 'Public Pledge on Self-discipline for China Internet Industry'."
What's going to happen when someone realizes the plans on how to build a rocket to get a man into space and in orbit are on a blocked website?
And somewhere, John Ashcroft is moaning with envy...
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
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They'll post a question to "ask /." and we'll happily put list a few dozen mirrors and dozen posts will the full instructions listed "in case the mirrors are /.ed".
Heck, we'll also tell them what's wrong with the plans, wrong instructions on how to correct the mistakes, right instructions on how to correct the wrong corrections, and how to make a beowulf cluster out of them.
-- If god wanted me to have a sig, he'd have given me a sense of humor.
I hear they're cracking down on all submersive sites. From now on, Yahoo can't link to any sites that discuss:
I wonder if the Chinese government has organizational rabies - that would explain this weird hydrophobia that they seem to have now. Or maybe they just never learned to swim?
Your right to not believe: Americans United for Separation of Church and
>>But when the choice is driving an hour plus for an alternate outlet, for a teen, it is practically equivalent to gov't censorship. I'm sorry, but kids need to have an outlet
... it was uphill, both ways, in a Geo Metro. It only had 3 cylinders [fade to mumbling]."
Yeah but think of the great stories you will get to tell YOUR grandkids - "Why when I was a teenager, I had to drive 1 hour just to BUY an issue of Teen Beat."
"Grandpa, what does 'drive' mean?"
"Dang kids and these new fangled teleportation pads. You don't understand
I forget...are we at war with Eurasia or East Asia?
When it's France, however, the folks from Yahoo stand up and defend [sfgate.com] their right to independent content. Strange dualism going on there, wouldn't you say.
Yahoo attacks, and France surrenders.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.