____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 29 September 2007 17:59 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>| 25 September 2007 (Urgent note)
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>>| Boycott Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN, and WebTV for political censorship.
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http://www.stallman.org/archives/2007-jul-oct.html#25%20September%202007%20%28Urgent%20note%29
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>> It's natural for Microsoft to defend suppression and totality.
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>> Related:
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>> Yahoo!, Microsoft ink web pact with Chinese government
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>>| Microsoft and Yahoo! have signed a pact with the Chinese government
>>| that "encourages" the big name web players to record the identities of
>>| bloggers and censor content. So says Reporters Without Borders, an
>>| organization that fights for journalistic rights across the globe.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/yahoo_and_microsoft_ink_chinese_blogging_pact/
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>
> This will help yahoo and Microsoft help the Burmese in finding their
> dissidents and killing them. I hope their shareholders are happy to
> have blood on their hands.
There's Yahoo and the incidents of torture in China (identity disclosures).
Yahoo's investors are in favour of doing whatever elevates profit, even if it
means elimination of privacy and support of suppressive and aggressive
regimes.
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