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US Government’s Slippery Slope Into Our Lives Doesn’t Excuse China or the US Companies that Help China

August 14, 2007 – 9:09 am

There was an article on TechDirt yesterday that made an interesting connection and then bizarrely came up with a ridiculous conclusion.
The article pointed to a NY Times article about China’s high-tech surveillance campaign backed by technology from US companies, and connects that to two Boston Globe articles about the US efforts to track its citizens[1][2].
The [...]

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Yahoo Just Doesn’t Care about Human Rights

June 11, 2007 – 10:18 pm

It has been said before on this little blog that Yahoo is a bad company for helping the Chinese government jail people for speaking out, but Yahoo just won’t admit to anyone that they did something bad. Free speech is obviously important and any company which helps a government suppress it should be regarded as [...]

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Secret Shame: why I don’t use Yahoo

May 5, 2007 – 12:32 pm

The recent talk of Microsoft buying out Yahoo! reminded me that I wanted to write a little about why I try to avoid companies like Yahoo! and why other people should do the same. Corporations are not known for their compassion, but companies like Yahoo! have (for a while now) taken dispassion to a new [...]

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Pet Care Tip #257: Don’t Feed Your Pet Rat Poison

March 23, 2007 – 2:35 pm

Want your pet to grow strong and have a shiny coat? Here’s a tip on how to accomplish that: don’t feed her rat poison.
Sound stupid? Maybe, but then again so does putting rat poison into canned cat and dog food and that appears to be exactly what Menu Foods Income Fund has done. [...]

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