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Yahoo Allegedly Sells Reporter Out to Chinese Authorities
truckaxle writes "Yahoo! has been accused, again, of providing information to Chinese authorities that resulted in the imprisonment of a Chinese journalist. Yahoo! apparently provided Chinese police with internet activity information in a case that resulted in the arrest of Li Zhi. His crime - trying to join the dissident China Democracy Party. Yahoo! says it simply responds to requests from the authorities and was just complying to local laws. A Reporters Without Borders post reported that 'Yahoo! certainly knew it was helping to arrest political dissidents and journalists, not just ordinary criminals'."
Hewas released and charges dropped when it hit the news. But so much for freedom of speech and being able to speak out against the Government in both countries!
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Look for Yahoo to start passing the buck to their regional partner soon. Taken from this site.
"In October, Yahoo formed a partnership with Alibaba.com, which has responsibility for complying with Chinese authorities' requests for information going forward"
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." -Albert Einstein
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Here you go. I'll be nuking my account later this week as well.
Jaysyn
There is a war going on for your mind.
This is an entirely confused post. In fact, Liberalism is an ideology which holds liberty as the primary political value. This is what the phrase "liberal democracy" implies.
You are using the word Liberal to refer to a modern, far left wing ideology of moral relativism.
While the word "liberal" (little L) has commonly become associated in America with the Democratic party and a so-called "American liberal" philosophy, this still has nothing whatsoever to do with moral relativism. In any case, it should tell you something whenever you hear certain far right Republicans try to smear the words "liberal" and "liberalism" - it's clear what they oppose.
Liberalism is a good thing, and stands in firm opposition too totalitarianism. This doesn't mean supporting war or violence as a means to spread individual liberties (a concept which I find inherently flawed and self-defeating), as the current Republican administration does. And moral relativism is a useless philosophy - most mainstream political groups and figures would reject it.
In any case, I'm not sure why anyone would think that either Democrats or Republicans would be more in favor of a company like Yahoo doing business in China. Both parties are pragmatic and generally pro-business, and both parties have presidents who have encouraged trade with China. I gather that both parties hope that over time, doing business with China would lead to more of their people recognizing their basic human rights and demanding freedom from their own government. I generally think this is a better strategy than the "bomb them until they are 'free'" thing. Unless you are advocating economic isolationism?
You really believe that christians would go on rampage, burn down buildings, call for the artists to be killed, and call on all christians to go on a jihad??
And worse things have been done then a cartoon to annoy christians. Take the "piss christ" (google for it if you've been living under a rock).
Not to mention lots of tv shows (Southpark comes to mind) with a murderous Jesus, and so on.
There's no hypocrisy at all. And I'm not even christian.