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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.'"

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  1. Slashdot looks different by (1337)+God · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's sized for a geriatric blind woman with a colostomy bag.

    What the fuck happened?

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  2. Guess what... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I hate niggers, yes I do
    I hate niggers, how about you
    the world can go go on with out them
    and we can can all be free
    now what are they going to do about,
    nigger-hatting me.

  3. Re:The proverbial canary. by technoid_ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Look at the ties the Bush family has to that dirty Nazi money also. Maybe the corporations are just following the lead set by the Presidential family.
    http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/randy/swas5.h tm
    http://www.rense.com/general26/dutch.htm
    http://www.john-loftus.com/bush_nazi_scandal.asp
    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32 55.htm


    technoid_

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