Tag Archives: yahoo!

Will Yahoo! and the Others Change Their China Policies Now?

November 14, 2007 – 9:57 am

Shi landed in trouble three years ago when the Chinese government prohibited journalists to report on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1989.
When Shi forwarded the notice to human rights groups, the Chinese government pressured Yahoo to give them the name of the account holder, and they did so. Shi [...]

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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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