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Yahoo Defends Itself On China Allegations

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder dept.

Vitaly Friedman writes "Yahoo defends its policies in China as doing more good than harm, even as multiple dissidents have been jailed based on Yahoo Mail evidence. From the article: 'Yahoo continues to defend itself against charges that its Chinese operations have been responsible for the jailing of multiple dissidents. Multiple reports have surfaced which tie Yahoo Mail to various Chinese court cases that have ended in imprisonment for writers with politically unpopular opinions.'"

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  1. doing more good than harm by iminplaya · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ahhh, the old "greater good" fallacy. What a load. The only "good" coming out of this is Yahoo's bottom line. Which is far more valuable than the lives of a couple of lousy dissidents, evidently. Well, if they're doing this in China, I wonder what they're doing to the Americans. Oh, yeah. Pretty much the same thing. With even less evidence of any crime. We should start seeing some arrests in the near future, but "national security" interests will prevent us from ever finding out.

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  2. Re:Here's a ranking of prisoners per capita by iminplaya · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That only covers documented prisoners. This sheds a bit more light on the issue.

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