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Yahoo Is Going To Stop Email Service In China
An anonymous reader writes with news that Yahoo will be ending their email service in China on August 13th. A support post on the Yahoo China site tells users how to migrate their account to a different email service called Aliyun. If they do so, their data can be migrated and they will continue to receive emails to their Yahoo address until the end of 2014. From the article:
"The US Internet giant Yahoo! has come under criticism in the past over its business in China, with executives apologising in 2007 for providing evidence that Chinese authorities used to convict government critics. The company said it was legally obliged to divulge information about its users to the Chinese government but that it was unaware it would be used to convict dissidents. The end of the service will affect millions of users, the paper quoted Alibaba public relations official Zhang Jianhua as saying, though he did not have a total figure."
Yahoo also announced the closure of six other products today: Upcoming, Deals, SMS Alerts, Kids, Mail and Messenger feature phone apps, and older versions of Mail.
Geeze, "the paper quoted Alibaba public relations official Zhang Jianhua", so why is Yahoo! US being cited?
Now Yahoo will be stuck giving information to the US government on US dissidents.
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You can't have it both way. We're (Americans) are constantly told that we shouldn't push our laws on other countries. That's correct, we should not. We should follow the laws of the land that we're operating in. This can result in following laws that would be looked down on, or even illegal, in our own country. Yahoo! tried to follow the laws of the land it was operating in and got burned for its efforts, and now it's pulling out.
You can't have it both way ways. Either you push your laws on another country or you follow the other country's laws. You can't pick and choose. The only other alternative is to leave. Yahoo! makes far more money in the US than in China, so it can't keep drawing bad publicity. They left. A sensible move.
So to do business in China, corporations will be beholden to the whims of the government, as opposed to the American way... whereby the government is beholden to the whims of corporations.
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Since they were/are prepared to do business in other dictatorships, I wonder what the real reason is?
I'm just scratching my head wondering why /. authorities don't do something about this shit. It's getting to really piss me off 'cause I have to fuckin' scroll forever just to see legitimate comments. It shouldn't be too hard for them to do something about it, 'cause it's pretty much the same text every time. I feel like I'm gettin' brainwashed by this fucker.
I might consider it as a replacement for Yahoo; but I wouldn't want to pay a subscription fee. If I don't like Yahoo's new look (and there's a good chance I won't), I'll be looking for a new service...
The company said [...] that it was unaware it would be used to convict dissidents.
I have some family members still alive who each spent at least a year in a work camp in Siberia courtesy of Stalin. I guess it'd do some good to get some corporate upper echelons to stay at a work camp in Siberia for a winter or two to get a message what totalitarian regimes are all about. If you read their PR and are all like "Don't know if trolling or just stupid", then a cold clue bat is perhaps the device of choice.
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Axing products, not cooperating with governments wanting it to hand over data about the users, ... yes, Yahoo! is becoming Google.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Not that yahoo email is that great overall, but I really don't see a point to corporations having much to do with China at this point other than to outsource some production for cheaper labor. Standard of living and wages are going up in China, good for them, but that kind of takes away the incentive. Start getting into business of selling them stuff instead, free yahoo accounts don't really count as selling. I doubt advertising from yahoo mail sees much revenue in China either. Benefits are starting to get outweighed by having to deal with the whims of their government.
Oh well, let them keep on building walls around themselves, that seems to be the Chinese tradition anyways.
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> Yahoo also announced the closure of six other
> products today:... older versions of Mail.
Too bad. I still hate their new (as of several years ago) webmail. Oh well.
> If you're on dial-up or an older browser, we'll
> move you to an HTML only / basic version
> of the new Yahoo! Mail.
Oh good. Maybe there's hope.
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Perhaps you meant six other services?
Set up a script that lets Yahoo China users migrate to your service simply by typing in their old email and password.
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Yahoo is still in business???
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