Comments on: Yahoo executives grilled by Congress over China policies: Live-blogging

With title of House hearing, "Yahoo! Inc.'s Provision of False Information to Congress," you can be sure this particular event will be be fair, neutral, and objective.

[bidnez]

Way to go there...

Nothing like giving aid and comfort to the New Fascism. Look, you
may not like Tom Lantos giving a hard time to Yahoo!, but they
deserve it. A man is going to spend the next decade doing some
very hard time for Yahoo's compliance with PRC fascism. Things
like this are a no-brainer -- money isn't everything, and if doing
business in a country means doing something immoral, don't do
business there. Period. And sure don't expect any sympathy if you
get called to the carpet for doing bad things for money.

[a21slider]

Doing business in a country

Yahoo is no more responsable for the PRC's policies than you are responsable for the war in Iraq. What is immoral about compling with a request?

By your logic, if you don't support the war, you should move out of the US.

[bidnez]

You clearly have no clue...

if you make any comparison between the PRC and the US that
implies that the US government is as evil as the PRC. It marks you
as either (1) a troll (2) simple-minded or (3) a PRC hack. There is
no equivalency.

[a21slider]

You are right

I'm an idiotic PRC hack. And you can't follow anything more complicated than a bumber sticker. Are we even?

I was writing about their assertion, not comparing the countries.


The other person asserted that Yahoo had to choose between making money and acting immorally, that that Yahoo deserved to be beat up because they choose to make money and act immorally. Therfore, if Yahoo didn;t want to be immoral, they should not do business in China.

My assertion is two fold. One, their assertion is wrong. It is not neccesarily true that Yahoo, by heading a government request is acting immorally. (If the governemnt asks them to fill out a change of address form when they moved, would complying with that request be an immoral act?)Secondly, if they think my first assertion is false, than it follows that they believe Yahoo must leave China.

That is equivilent as suggeting that someone who thinks our Governement's war in Iraq is immoral, must leave the US.

[charles webster baer]

global internet government

vote for charles webster baer of bend , oregon , for president of the usa

http://gigusa.blog.com

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[rickabruzzo]

why is it ok to steal photos for your article?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fetching/1891976723/

I would like an explanation from the senior editors of CNET on why their photo policy allows designers to steal photos for use on their page without photo credit, compensation or permission of the author?

[Jon Skillings]

Photo use

It's not OK to steal photos. We did in fact have permission to use that image on an earlier occasion - see my longer response in that Flickr thread. What we're trying to work out now is the details of the reuse of a vetted photo, and that too will be posted to the Flickr thread.

We also nixed the secondary use of the photo as soon as the issue was raised.