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

November 14, 2007 – 9:57 am

Technology companies in the United States have succumbed to pressure by authoritarian foreign governments to provide such governments with information about Internet users that has led to the arrest and imprisonment of cyber dissidents, in violation of the corporate responsibility of such companies to protect and uphold human rights.

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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.

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Secret Shame: why I don’t use Yahoo

May 5, 2007 – 12:32 pm

would like people believe it cares (it doesn’t), so its spokesperson reminds us all that Companies doing business in China must comply with Chinese law or its local employees could be faced with civil and criminal penalties. Changing the way American companies do business in China can only be positive— ultimately business won’t be lost because the Chinese government wants China to be modern and global.

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Here’s Some Chess

January 16, 2007 – 12:19 am

Sometime around May 2006 I got this idea to make a Chess server that uses only PHP. There are lots of boring reasons for the PHP part, but the reason for making the server was that I had friends who I played chess with and a bunch of people (including myself) we’re moving all over the place so it would be difficult to keep playing. chess, chess program, chess server, mysql, open source, php, php chess, some chess, web chess

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