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Business At The Price Of Freedom
An anonymous reader writes "The TechZone has an article on how much technology companies setting up shops in China have to kowtow to the Chinese government. All the major search engines have given in to Chinese demands to throttle liberty in exchange for access to the Chinese market and Microsoft has blocked users of its MSN site from using the terms 'freedom,' 'democracy' and other concepts China has designated as dangerous. From the article: 'Most disconcerting are recent reports that Yahoo!'s Hong Kong operation is turning over emails which helped convict a reporter. Journalist Shi Tao was jailed and sentenced to 10 years in prison for "illegally sending state secrets abroad." The secrets that he revealed were information his newspaper received from the state propaganda department about how they could cover the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. He was identified because he had used Yahoo!'s free email service for which Yahoo! turned over log files to authorities that were later tracked back to his computer.'"
Americans are dying everyday to bring democracy to the world, and Yahoo sells freedom down the river for a few Yen.
Dissidents of repressive regimes should be supported.
Students died for freedom in Tianamin but I guess Yahoo has no Do No Evil Policy
Yahoo should be deeply ashamed.
Boycott these Bastards.
Yes, we should KILL PEOPLE for following local laws. It's people like you that make me sick
if "Journalist" Shi Tao is as stupid as to allow something like this to happen, then he deserves it. it's not like pgp, freenet/tor/what have you, anon remailers etc do not exist. what's that you say, there's the death penalty for possessing such software in china? surprise, surprise: freedom is not free.
hello and welcome to the real world.
Global warming is a cube.
And spend eternity burning in hell.
Have fun idiot.
I know some one that will pay me $500 if I naplam your ass.
Profit!
I wonder what the president will do about this.
(A) Declare a National Day Of Prayer.
(B) Go on vacation.
(C) Find the person most at fault and award them the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
(D) Employ his buddy, former head of the International Arabian Horse Association, and put him in charge.
(E) Find some unrelated country to invade.
(F) Misunderestimate the problem.
(G) Launch a nucular stike.
(H) Award Halliburton a no-bid contract.
(I) Give the richest 1% of the country a massive tax cut for trickle-down effects.
(J) Point out that You Forgot Poland!
(K) Lie to the country.
(L) Send a cabinet official to lie to the UN.
(M) Dismiss you as a member of the Reality-based community.
(N) Sit on his ass reading "My Pet Goat" to some kids at a classroom photo-op.
(O) Promise to deliver Texas's 34 electorial vites to his brother Jeb in 2008 and 2012.
(P) Give Big Industry billions of dollars in subsidies.
(Q) Get drunk and arrested for DWI.
(R) Fall back on his old cocaine habit.
(S) Pull out a chainsaw and clear some brush.
(T) Fail to even notice the issue in his daily briefing notes because he's "not a reader".
(U) Go on a hand-holding stroll with the president of China.
(V) Waste several million dollars of taxpayer money to pose for a photo-op on a nuclear Aircraft Carrier.
(W) Appoint the Whitehouse's first female chef... and have a photo-op for the big occasion.
(X) Declare another National Day Of Prayer.
(Y) Go on vacation some more.
(Z) Declare a National Day Of Prayer while on vaction.
(Note: The National Weather and Crisis Administration has stated that we will need to use the the greek alphabet if Bush continues to caus^H^H^H^Hface any additional crises during the current term)
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