Yahoo! Agrees to Censor Chinese Web Portal.

Yahoo ^ | 7/15/02 | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN

[BlessingInDisguise]

"China has also closed thousands of Internet cafes since a fire June 16 at a cafe in Beijing that killed 25 people."

In the name of safety and security no doubt.

[Free the USA]

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[Pyro7480]

Yahoo!, collaborators with the oppresive communist regime in China, in their quest to keep information contrary to the official government line out of the hands of the Chinese people. This is an outrage. Write Yahoo! an e-mail expressing your outrage, and if they don't comply, vote with your feet. REMEMBER TIANANMEN SQUARE!!!!

[Lake]

>>Yahoo!, collaborators with the oppresive communist regime in China

Yahoo!China is a Chiense company. It has to abide by the Chinese law.

[Egg]

*Poof*--now morality is defined by national law! What a turn-around! Yahoo nods and winks at its hosting of child pornography chat rooms here in the US, but that's a free speech issue even though it's illegal. But in China, Yahoo simply has their hands tied because they have no choice but to obey the government of the country in which they are operating--they won't even offer literature which criticizes communism or the corrupt leaders who run socialist regimes.

Moral relativism makes less sense everyday.

[maui_hawaii]

Its just one more reason to abandon the China Dream and move along to something more real. Get 'em out of China.

[maui_hawaii]

Yahoo!China is a Chiense company. It has to abide by the Chinese law.

If Yahoo! China is a Chinese company, how about we outlaw their access to all US capital.

American money should not fund CCP values.

When they do not get any more money from the US, directly or indirectly, to run this kind of operation, then they might be considered "owned by the Chinese"...

[maui_hawaii]

The CCP is trying to impose its values on the international business community.

[Dec31,1999]

China is trying to experiment with a limited amount of economic freedom, while restricting other freedoms. I wonder if it will work. They will have some degree of success.

The vast majority are still very poor. I don't see how any nation can be prosperous without property rights as of yet. See exhibit A below:

Most areas of the globe without property rights, such as North Korea, Cuba, Haiti, etc, don't have lights, either, which is indicative of poverty.Some areas are not so bright because of a lack of population, however. But If China is so populated, why is it mostly dark?

What do you think?

[Lake]

Looks like India is richer than the western part of the US.

[George from New England]

"China has also closed thousands of Internet cafes since a fire June 16 at a cafe in Beijing that killed 25 people."

I think someone rearranged the sentence, makes more sense as...

China has killed 25 people in Beijing with a fire in the closing of thousands of Internet cafes since June 16.

That sounds more like the ChiCom's methods.

[George from New England]

China has a good deal of lit areas. The dark areas are very mountainous.

But look at North Korea, you can't find it unless you know where to look, very dark.

[steve-b]

If Yahoo! China is a Chinese company, how about we outlaw their access to all US capital.

The technologies of Internet screening should be export-controlled, as they have no real use other than to help prop up governments that are opposed to our way of life.

[fire_eye]

Yahoo!China is a Chiense company. It has to abide by the Chinese law.

If "Yahoo China" is franchised by our domestic "Yahoo", - even to the extent of the latter giving permission to the former to use its name - the domestic Yahoo is complicit in the oppression and should be boycotted.

[wai-ming]

Thanks for this post.

I am currently in China, and it takes FOREVER to access Yahoo! Now I know why.

FreeRepublic, by the way, comes up immediately. Good to be "home". I'm relying on FR for the news of what's really going on in the world.

I'll be here as long as they don't pull the pl..............................

[Sonny M]

Thats odd, India is supposed to be a 3rd world nation, yet according to this "lights theory", they seem to be a hell of alot better of then most of the world.

[Smocker]

Bet you won't find this anywhere in the Chinese Yahoo sites:

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

[BlessingInDisguise]

How are you accessing Free Republic from inside of China? Don't the internet providers report you if you try to access this site or something?

[supercat]

At what (local) time are those pictures taken, and during what part of the year? I'd say the amount of light at 3:00am is perhaps less meaningful than the amount at 8:00pm.

[wai-ming]

Thanks for your response.

I've been to China several times in the past year. FreeRepublic has always been easy to access.

Can't say the same for Yahoo! Totally inaccessible right now.