2006-10-27 11:01:08 · 29 answers · asked by elaine h 1 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
That has been going on for at least a year now. There is nothing we can do about it.
I have a feeling I know the particular case to which you are referring. That happened quite a while ago. There have been others since. Again, there is nothing we can do about it.
Here is why we can't do anything about it: In order for Yahoo to be able to do business in a particular country, Yahoo must follow the laws of that country. It's too bad that Yahoo and others, in their greed, want to do business in countries like China!!!
Sadly, this is the way it is. There is nothing we as "the little guy" can do. Sad but true.
2006-10-27 11:09:26 · answer #1 · answered by x_southernbelle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK, you should have provided a reference, but anybody with five seconds to spare and half a brain can look and find it themselves:
"Chinese journalist Shi Tao used his Yahoo! account to email a US-based website about an internal government directive instructing journalists how to handle media coverage of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for "illegally providing state secrets to foreign entities." Yahoo! provided information to the government that was used in his prosecution."
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGPOL300552006
Obviously there's not a huge deal that you as an individual can really do. The best thing is to educate yourself, and educate others. You can also check out this website:
http://irrepressible.info/
Also: it's true what people are saying that the real root of the problem doesn't lie with Yahoo. But there's a point where, "I was just following orders," or "that's just the cost of doing business" are not acceptable, as history has shown.
2006-10-27 11:13:26 · answer #2 · answered by EQ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not much i feel. We live and learn that the corporations don't give a flying toss at the end of the day. It is not just Yahoo! Google and Microsoft are just as guilty.
Ultimately China is big money for them and the big three just want their slice.
For those that wanted more info. IT WAS ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE INDEPENDENT YESTERDAY!
OH and this:
[edit] Censorship
Yahoo!, along with Google China, Microsoft, Cisco, AOL, Skype, and others, has cooperated with the Chinese government in implementing a system of Internet censorship in mainland China.
Many critics of these corporate policies argue that it is wrong for companies to profit from censorship and restrictions on freedom of the press and freedom of speech.
Human rights advocates such as Human Rights Watch and media groups such as Reporters Without Borders point out that if companies would stop contributing to the authorities' censorship efforts the government could be forced to change.
[edit] Chinese blogger imprisonment controversy
In April 2005, Shi Tao, a journalist working for a Chinese newspaper, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Changsha Intermediate People's Court of Hunan Province, China (First trial case no 29), for "providing state secrets to foreign entities". The "secret", as Shi Tao's family claimed, refers to a brief list of censorship orders he sent from a Yahoo! Mail account to the Asia Democracy Forum before the anniversary of Tiananmen Square Incident.[5]
The verdict stated Yahoo! Holdings (Hong Kong) confirmed that an IP address, registered by a Hunan newspaper that Shi Tao worked for, accessed to the mail account at a particular time. He had sent the message through an anonymous Yahoo! account, but police had gone straight to his offices and picked him up. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned with the ease with which Mr Shi had been caught. In April 2006, Yahoo! Holdings (Hong Kong) is under investigation by Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data.
Criticism of Yahoo! intensified when the court document stated the company aided Chinese authorities in the case of dissident Li Zhi. In December 2003 Li Zhi was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for "inciting subversion".
In recent months Yahoo! has also followed the directive of United States government officials in turning over information which the United States deems as key for continuing its global "war on terror". Yahoo! contends it must respect the laws of governments in jurisdictions where it is operating.
On 2 June 2006, the union representing journalists in the UK and Ireland (NUJ) called on its 40,000 members to boycott all Yahoo! Inc. products and services to protest the Internet company's reported actions in China. [6]
From here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!
2006-10-27 19:22:22 · answer #3 · answered by Part Time Cynic 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We can email Yahoo telling them how wrong they are, and pointing out they aren't the only ISP in the world!
To the people who gave me the thumbs-down: would you have traded with the South African government when Nelson Mandela was still in prison, on the grounds that "business is business"? If some government is doing wrong anywhere in the world, and companies we are using are collaborating with those governments, then we have a duty to speak up. Anything less is a betrayal of free speech, the internet, and fellow human beings.
2006-10-27 11:03:15 · answer #4 · answered by gellhorn 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Why is everyone blaming Yahoo??? Please don't believe the headlines - take the time to think this through.
Yahoo as a company wanted to trade in China. Like any company in the world, if you want to trade in a country you have to abide by that countries laws and regulations. As China have a strict regime they impost strict rules and regulations on yahoo.
All Yahoo have done is abide by their obligations and follow the law of the land - the real issue is with the Chinese government and their repression of free speech.
It really bugs me when the media manipulate the story to make a big victim / oppressor headline - obviously it would be politically unsound to critisize China directly so the idiot media pick on Yahoo. Please people - read between the lines and see when your being played for a fool.
And no......I don't work for Yahoo.
2006-10-27 11:11:58 · answer #5 · answered by The Wandering Blade 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Sentenced to 10 years where?
2006-10-27 11:02:46 · answer #6 · answered by CharWiz 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I love it when I see stupid questions on Yahoo. I get this warm fuzzy feeling like I'm not the dumbest person out there. I love you for making my day. Oh and by the way he was not sentenced to 10 years, it was 10 weeks. He was in fact guilty of his own intent, Yahoo was just a scape-goat he used. And finally why are you asking this on Yahoo? I mean it's the best freakin' website out there. Damn I got something brown on my nose again. Think I could borrow a tissue?
2006-10-27 11:07:32 · answer #7 · answered by Matarael 3 · 0⤊ 5⤋
You people are priceless! If someone comes up with some shite about illegal immigrants being given gold plated toilet paper on the NHS you believe it instantly and start your racist rants.
A serious case of human rights abuse is mentioned and you demand further proof.
Pitiful.
2006-10-27 11:23:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Need to make the Free Web accessible to everyone in oppressive regimes(Free-web: a system where all people hold all info so postings/responses/searches can't be tied to individuals)
Do we know what he said to cause this?
M
2006-10-27 11:06:37 · answer #9 · answered by mesmerized 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Need a lot more details to go on
2006-10-29 07:02:32 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋