Comments on: Yahoo pressured over China cooperation

Reporters Without Borders confronts Yahoo at its headquarters, shows video from man whose brother was sentenced to hard labor.

[Dachi]

CNET is so anti-Yahoo!

So Yahoo china cooperates with Chinese officials...Big Deal..

The case in point argument you present about Yahoo being evil they turned over information to China with little fight.

China arrests Yahoo user based on contents of data.

Given that scenario I can only draw the conclusion that the based on Chinese law the man was _GUILTY_ and Yahoo releasing his information to china was apparently the correct decision.

What is CNET doing for the free speech of the Chinese people that makes them so high and mighty??

[dosware]

OMG

Too bad Yahoo didn't expand its services into Afganistan during the Taliban reign. Can I assume your reply would then read as follows?

...."Taliban beheads Yahoo user based on contents of data. Given that scenario I can only draw the conclusion that based on Taliban law the man was _GUILTY_, can be LEGALLY beheaded, and Yahoo releasing his information to the Taliban was apparently the correct decision"....

If that's really a logical (if extreme) extension of Yahoo's defense, I would greatly prefer that they relocate all of their servers (as well as corporate HQ) outside the U.S.

[maxwis]

Thank You Chairman Mao

The human organs that you requested to be harvested for you are ready.

[n3td3v]

A matter of trust

This isn't about the rights or wrongs. This is about consumer confidence the public have in Yahoo!

Yahoo! proves time again with various government demands that they are a soft touch in exchanging user data between super powers.

Google's stance on their search data was the right way to go. Not because Google was right or wrong to fight the government, but because it gives the consumer added trust and confidence.

With tensions between the two dot-coms already at an all time high, as Yahoo executives admit defeat on Search over Google, I think more folks are going to be suspicious of the behind the scenes agenda at Yahoo, than Google, and thats got to be damaging for Yahoo.

Google are set to roll out a "Gdrive", where users will be able to use Google data centers as hard drives, and we know Yahoo will follow.

Which drive will you trust more, a Gdrive or a Ydrive?

Take your pick, but the big G gets my vote over Y anyday.

And I wasn't even going to store anything illegal on there, I just don't want the government getting their grubby hands on my Paris Hilton porn.

[osider]

Agree

Agree.

[Thinkforachange]

hypocrites

i dont see anything wrong with Yahoo complying with Chinese laws, no matter how much we dont like them as americans. The point is, yahoo has to comply with the laws of that particular country no matter what.

Dont be so hypocritical, we wouldnt like it if a chinese company came over here and refused to comply with US laws because china doesnt have it. if u think about it that way. what right we have to judge what happens in other countries.

Additionally... what about the United States forcing newspaper journalists into giving up their sources in those government secret leaks... IE, imprisonment until they gave up the names. As i see it. the USA did the same exact thing!!.. so instead of judging other countries and their business, fix ours... atleast we "supposedly" have the power to do so.. instead of putting blame into yahoo to change the world to the way americans want it

[UntoldDreams]

There are limitations you know

If the Nazi regime were still around and wanted Yahoo's help on sorting and searching jewish people I assume you would not be happy with Yahoo, right? The point is that US based companies should not allowed to support Human Rights Abuse anywhere else in the world. If we give US corporations free tickets to flirt the law in other countries where do we draw the line? Slave trade of children? What if that's legal. Beheading people was legal under Taliban rule. Can I send a Manager from Yahoo America I dislike and have him legally beheaded in Afganistan by bribing an official?

[maxwis]

China Will Put Yahoo Out Of Business Anyway

Eventually China Yahoo, like other American companies in China, will be put out of business, so this will be a moot point. The Chinese government will rip off Yahoo's intellectual property (do you not think China has hordes of spies working at Yahoo), and then they will fund some local shell company to replicate what Yahoo does and charge for less for it. They throw in a few new features that Yahoo doesn't have, and it's goodbye Yahoo.