Yahoo China has the Worst Filtering Policy

rmunaval writes "Reporters Without Borders has an article on search-result censorship in China by different companies. The conclusion was made based on six politically sensitive keywords. A search on yahoo.cn resulted in 97% pro-Beijing results compared to 83% on google.cn and 78% on msn.cn." From the article: "[Yahoo!] is therefore censoring more than its Chinese competitor Baidu. Above all, the organisation was able to show that requests using certain terms, such as 6-4 (4 June, date of the Tiananmen Square massacre), or 'Tibet independence', temporarily blocked the search tool. If you type in one of these terms on the search tool, first you receive an error message. If you then go back to make a new request, even with a neutral key word, yahoo.cn refuses to respond."

Comments

'Worst' Filtering policy

[HugePedlar]

Or is it really the best? ;)

Serves them right...

[RISTMO]

That's what they get for not doing 4-6 (for June 4th) like the rest of the world...

WoW

[earthstar]

Wow!
What policies Yahoo has for China ! Super censorship!
Couple this with my Sig link - Giving away emailers to Govt !!!
Uber "******" !

Re:Wow

[zippthorne]

I don't think you understand godwin's law at all. Or for that matter what a physical law is, which is what "godwin's law" is a tongue-in-cheek example of.

Priorities

[Mateo_LeFou]

The governmental powers who are hot and bothered about "intellectual property" violations in China maybe could apply pressure on the free speech area first. The way I'm seeing it the things that piss America off most are (in order)

1. Be Iraq
2. Develop weapons of mass destruction
3. Support terrorists
4. Infringe copyrights
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... (Profit?)

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413. Abridge freedom of speech, or of the press.