p2pnet - rss feed: Yahoo promotes China venture
p2p news / p2pnet: Yesterday, a joint statement by group of powerful investment funds managing billion of dollars in assets all-but denounced Yahoo and others for helping Communist China censor the Net and operate online surveillance systems.
Today, " The entrepreneur who runs Yahoo Inc.’s China-based Web portal has announced a new strategy based on promoting the site as a search engine, saying he’s ready to spend heavily in a battle with Chinese-language search leader Baidu.com," says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
"Wednesday’s announcement by Jack Ma, chief executive officer of Alibaba.com, highlighted the intense rivalry in China’s market of more than 100 million Internet users. Alibaba took control of Yahoo’s China sites in a deal in August, in which Yahoo bought 40 percent of the Chinese company."
Alibaba would cooperate with the communist authorities if they sought information on "politically sensitive information" sent by a Yahoo e-mail customer, the story has Ma saying.
"I’m not a political group," Ma said, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "I’m a businessman."
Yahoo ! Holdings (Hong Kong) recently gave Chinese security police information that helped identify, convict and sentence a Chinese writer who’d highlighted press restrictions.
The writer, Shi Tao, was jailed for 10 years.
See:-
all-but denounced - Investment funds sign Net pledge, November 8, 2005
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Yahoo in China to promote search engine, November 9, 2005
identify, convict and sentence - Yahoo: ‘China police informant’, September 7, 2005
November 9th, 2005 at 3:23 pm
(And hopefully, you will catch bird flu from it.)
Ok Mr. Businessman, you have made it clear that you are not a political group. With that said, the Chinese people will come to realized that your company is a tattle tale for a repressive regime. Your customers, the Chinese people will become afraid to use your services for anything that they don’t want the government to know about. What does this mean? It means that they will find alternative to using your product. That alternative could be FreeWan Cells, FreeNet, Sneakernet, or any other p2p anonymous service. Whatever the alternative will be, it will be a direct competition to your product. Since the competition will most likely be open source, it will allow Chinese hackers to improve it until the quality as well as anonyminity of their product will drive users to it instead of your product.
I personally do not trust your product and have quit using it all together several years ago because of all the crap that I found on my computer that was installed via your product. When your company merged with S.B.C. (a.k.a. Southwestern Bell Corporation or as your tech support refers to it Satan’s Broadcasting Company), S.B.C. Internet users were forced to download your software that installed a bunch of unwanted crap on their computer (unless they knew enough about computers to create a simple dialup connection). If the company you merged with, S.B.C. manages to take over all landline and Internet services, then I will be without phone or Internet.
Yahoo is the epitomy of increasingly unethical business. The more people that are turn off from your ’service’ the better. I personally would not use your ’service’ even if I was paid a dollar for each time I did (unless of course you count fake use only to gather money). Many other people also feel the same way. Change you business practices, or else you will enventually be force out of business.