Business At The Price Of Freedom 254
An anonymous reader writes "The TechZone has an article on how much technology companies setting up shops in China have to kowtow to the Chinese government. All the major search engines have given in to Chinese demands to throttle liberty in exchange for access to the Chinese market and Microsoft has blocked users of its MSN site from using the terms 'freedom,' 'democracy' and other concepts China has designated as dangerous. From the article: 'Most disconcerting are recent reports that Yahoo!'s Hong Kong operation is turning over emails which helped convict a reporter. Journalist Shi Tao was jailed and sentenced to 10 years in prison for "illegally sending state secrets abroad." The secrets that he revealed were information his newspaper received from the state propaganda department about how they could cover the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. He was identified because he had used Yahoo!'s free email service for which Yahoo! turned over log files to authorities that were later tracked back to his computer.'"
Boycott Yahoo! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This is new? (Score:4, Funny)
Is the nation's leader anti-communist?
If yes, the nation is probably our friend.
If no, go to next question.
Does the nation allow US Corporations to help them exploit their citizens?
If yes, it is definitely our friend.
If no, then they are our evil commie terrorist enemy, and must be destroyed in the name of FREEDOM(of US corporations to make as much money as possible) and DEMOCRACY(of US corporations to decide on what the government should do).
Just Get Hip (Score:3, Funny)
Chinese users just have to learn how to start searching for fr33dom and dem0cr@cy. After all, that's only one step beyond searching for p0rn.
"Why am I on the no-fly list?" (Score:3, Funny)
"Sorry sir, I couldn't tell you even if I knew."
If Kennedy can't find out why he's on the list they won't tell you either.
Faclon