National Union of Journalists Advises the Boycott of 'Unethical' Yahoo

[Blazingpie]

http://www.nuj.org.uk/index.php

The National Union of Journalists is advising its 40,000 members to boycott all Yahoo! products and services in protest at its repeated collusion with the Chinese authorities.

While I doubt it'll actually do little to dent yahoo, at least they've got the right idea. Yahoo's collusion with the Chinese gov in order to be in that country and thus make money is rather sickening. Instead of a boycott, why not just create a virus that makes zombie pcs that'll do nothing but do yahoo queries (and thus make them waste money)? :p Lol, though highly unlikely it'd be really funny to see them get DDOSed, hahaha.

[Koz]

The collusion is disgusting! Espesialy so because they're aiding the government to lock up people in the media industry (we should all stick together :) ). I'm sure if the general public accross the world here of this there will many more boycots.

cheers, koz

[Koz]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060606...le_censorship_3

Originally Posted by yahoo.com
WASHINGTON - Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged Tuesday the dominant Internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course.

Google are comprimising to get into China, but at least not as horribly as yahoo

cheers, koz

[Blazingpie]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060606...le_censorship_3



Google are comprimising to get into China, but at least not as horribly as yahoo

cheers, koz

yeah, and if a remember correctly there are still ways around google's censorship of the content. you add the 'country' code bit to the querystring to show another country and hey-presto! You get unfiltered content :) not sure if this 'bug' has been 'fixed', but i know it used to work initially :)

[Paz]

I was certainly shocked to hear that Yahoo passed on private details of a journalist that led to his arrest and imprisonment. It's a scandal that broke a couple of months ago but seemed to fade away.

Well done to the National Union of Journalists for rekindling interest!

The passing of personal data to authoritarian aside, I have no problems with Yahoo and Google working in countries where governments try to censor information.

Even if the search engines comply with government censorship, as you well know, people will find a way to get around restrictions and get access to uncensored news and information somehow. That will only help in my view.

Cheers,
Paz.

[BSolveIT]

I would love an internet without spam, spyware, viruses, wannabe's, and losers in general.

Actually, I hate the mere mention of the idea to create anything destructive or malicious, for whatever reason. We ALL lose when this happens - ultimately.

So, yes I would be extremely happy to see the internet being cencored (up to a point), policed, maintained and moderated. The trouble of course is where to draw the line - and how to achieve the desired results in the first place.

I doubt we'll ever get a perfect internet, because saddly the world is full of total losers. :|

[newbie2010]

Nice to hear this good new. Yahoo now a days improving.