Monday, September 12, 2005 at 10:56 AM
Update: Yahoo! Becomes China’s Most Favoured National Thought Police…
Only weeks ago, I published an article on the Orwellian Agreements that Yahoo!, Microsoft and other technology companies signed with the Chinese government to spy on the Internet activities of Chinese citizens. Of course, back then, corporate chiefs at these companies protested with indignation that they would never become stool pigeons for China’s police state. Nevertheless, I lamented how odious and hypocritical it was that American corporations that exploited democratic freedoms to make their names and untold fortunes are now collaborating with a totalitarian regime to deny people in the most populous country on earth similar human freedoms.
Special Agents Jerry Yang (L) and David Filo, founders of Yahoo!, now as notorious in China for preventing democratic freedoms as Eliot Ness was famous in America for preventing crime…
It came as no surprise, therefore, when international media watchdog Reporters Without Borders reported last week that Yahoo! had helped the Chinese government entrap and sentence Chinese journalist Shi Tao to 10 years in prison (a.k.a. the Ministry of Love) for the crime of daring to use his email account to:
…post on the Internet a government order barring Chinese media from marking the 15th anniversary of the brutal crackdown on democracy activists in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
I would recommend boycotting Yahoo! but, since they’re probably monitoring every key stroke I make on my computer, I fear terminal cyberspace reprisals….Doublethink!
Click here to see what those yahoos over at Yahoo! have to say for themselves!
What sell-outs. Thank you for this because the more people who know about it the more it will affect the bottom line for these creeps.
How do you spell Jerk off!
Y-a-h-o-o
But what’s so differant about these companies having dealings with one of the most oppressive regimes on the planet anyway. It’s all condone by our government in the name of capitalism. We’ll never stop trading with China no matter how oppressed their people are or one sided the trading is.