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Re: OT: Yahoo- apparently now an extension of the Chinese govt secret
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Wed Sep 7 09:18:59 2005
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:09:38 GMT
To: bob_arthurs@hotmail.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
This is not shaping up to be a very good month for
Yahoo! all the way around -- at least PR-wise:
http://techdirt.com/articles/20050907/0246214_F.shtml
- ferg
-- "Bob Arthurs" <bob_arthurs@hotmail.com> wrote:
Way OT, but very interesting- don't know if anyone saw this article about
Yahoo collaborating with the Chinese government's police (from the BBC):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4221538.stm
If this is true, I for one will stop using Yahoo- I have spent alot of time
in Asia myself, and I am very aware of the nature of the Chinese secret
police. But if the article is true, I guess Yahoo doesn't care about the
opinion of the regular consumer when they can curry favor with a repressive
regime by informing on people.
So, if you email friends in China from a Yahoo account, you have been
warned!
--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
Engineering Architecture for the Internet
fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
