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  • xmas13
    Confirmed User
    • Dec 2004
    • 5176

    #1

    10 years in a Chinese prison for forwarding an email using a Yahoo account

    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedi...news-a_section

    Yahoo isn't the only villain

    The Internet giant is just one of many tech firms propping up China's totalitarian ways.

    By Peter Navarro
    November 8, 2007
    Which company has committed the greater evil? Yahoo Inc. helped send a reporter to prison by revealing his identity to the Chinese government. Cisco Systems Inc. helps send thousands of Chinese dissidents to prison by selling sophisticated Internet surveillance technology to China.

    If bad press is to be the judge, the "stool pigeon" Yahoo is clearly the bigger villain. In 2004, after the Chinese government ordered the country's media not to report on the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, journalist Shi Tao used his Yahoo e-mail account to forward a government memo to a pro-democracy group. When China's Internet police -- a force of 30,000 -- uncovered this, it pressured Yahoo to reveal Shi's identity. Yahoo caved quicker than you can say Vichy France, and Shi is doing 10 years in a Chinese slammer for one click of his subversive mouse.
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  • papill0n
    Unregistered Abuser
    • Oct 2007
    • 15547

    #2
    wow thats preety shitty from yahoo

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    • marketsmart
      HOMICIDAL TROLL KILLER
      • Dec 2004
      • 20419

      #3
      the US is pissed.. jerry yang had to testify to congress the other day...

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      • DateDoc
        Outside looking in.
        • Feb 2005
        • 14243

        #4
        Originally posted by marketsmart
        the US is pissed.. jerry yang had to testify to congress the other day...
        http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21671210/

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        • SmokeyTheBear
          ►SouthOfHeaven
          • Jun 2004
          • 28609

          #5
          i found it kind of ironic the senators were giving yahoo shit calling them "moral pygmies" for following a court order from china and handing over the information. While at the same time they would shit bricks if yahoo ignored u.s. court orders.
          hatisblack at yahoo.com

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          • tony299
            lurker
            • Aug 2002
            • 57021

            #6
            I guess freedom isnt important for chinese citizens isnt to W since he needs china's money to fund his war.

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            • Juilan
              Sultan of Swing
              • Feb 2004
              • 15141

              #7
              Yahoo bans the term "Democracy" in China.
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              • madfuck
                Registered User
                • Oct 2004
                • 2032

                #8
                dammmm antii tht some shiit now huh....
                iim sorry

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                • GregE
                  Confirmed User
                  • Jul 2004
                  • 2704

                  #9
                  Originally posted by SmokeyTheBear
                  i found it kind of ironic the senators were giving yahoo shit calling them "moral pygmies" for following a court order from china and handing over the information. While at the same time they would shit bricks if yahoo ignored u.s. court orders.
                  Give your act a rest, why don't you.

                  What yahoo did was wrong, plain and simple.

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                  • jpd1975
                    Registered User
                    • Oct 2007
                    • 26

                    #10
                    china

                    China is on the brink of a massive change for the worse - a man was shot recently for butting in line to get fuel for his auto - they have major fuel shortages, massive pollution, over population... and they make toys out of feces, fertlizer and lead so that Wal-Mart can make a nice hefty profit
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                    • L-Pink
                      working on my tan
                      • Mar 2005
                      • 39151

                      #11
                      Originally posted by tony404
                      I guess freedom isnt important for chinese citizens isnt to W since he needs china's money to fund his war.
                      Tony, it is COMMUNIST China ..... remember?

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                      • xmas13
                        Confirmed User
                        • Dec 2004
                        • 5176

                        #12
                        Originally posted by jpd1975
                        China is on the brink of a massive change for the worse - a man was shot recently for butting in line to get fuel for his auto - they have major fuel shortages, massive pollution, over population... and they make toys out of feces, fertlizer and lead so that Wal-Mart can make a nice hefty profit
                        Agreed. China is living in a big lie, they portray themselves as the next superpower, with a Japan-style economy, while it's kindda obvious that our planet resources can barely handle 200-300M middle class Chinese, with a GDP of only $2k / year, 20x less than in the US, and highly concentrated. If we can't handle such a small Chinese middle cass with low wages, how can Communists and Chinese themselves seriously believe that we will ever see a 1.5 billion people nation with .... even $10,000 yearly GDP, let alone 20k or 30k. Just do the math, we would have to surrender all our oil, metals, trees, water, coal, gas....etc. A rich China is just an utopia like Communism. Doomed to fail.

                        China: Olympic's lie
                        http://www.livevideo.com/video/sil22...nas-olymp.aspx

                        Chongqing: Economic boom at the expensive of workers and farmers.
                        http://video.google.com/videosearch?...chongqing&so=0

                        Japan has been sucking our financial resources for decades, we can't let China turn our Western democratic world into a Thirld World waste area.

                        Europe and the US trade on fair terms, China and Japan are not interested in such two way trade. They manipulate their currencies and make sure their populations are not going to use their money to buy our products.

                        China and Japan must go, and quick.

                        If u think we need China and Japan, let me tell u that our purchasing power is lower than it was in 1970. The capital lost is in South East Asia and Japan is the world's largest creditor.
                        Last edited by xmas13; 11-08-2007, 09:42 PM.
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                        • 2012
                          So Fucking What
                          • Jul 2006
                          • 17189

                          #13
                          ... bastids
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                          • Dirty Dane
                            Sick Fuck
                            • Feb 2004
                            • 9491

                            #14
                            Fuck yahoo for doing that

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                            • calibra
                              Confirmed User
                              • Feb 2003
                              • 4357

                              #15
                              Fuck yahoo And got sentenced to a ten year imprisonment for sending an e-mail? Fucking love China for that!

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                              • Billsaw
                                Registered User
                                • Dec 2006
                                • 4

                                #16
                                xmas13 has been sucking our financial resources for decades.
                                must go, and quick.

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                                • EonBlue
                                  Apocalypse
                                  • May 2007
                                  • 3043

                                  #17
                                  Google has been pimping for China for years. And so have the Clintons.

                                  Anyways, China will grow old before it grows rich or powerful. But that doesn't mean that they won't lash out before their decline.

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                                  • HeadPimp
                                    Bad Mo-Fo
                                    • Jul 2001
                                    • 2772

                                    #18
                                    Yahoo sucks for caving, but was following a court order.

                                    HE was fucked in the head to be using Yahoo in the first place!

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