Not Yahoo's job to 'fix China'

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Not Yahoo's job to 'fix China'

Yahoo! chief executive Carol Bartz staunchly defended the Internet company's business practices in China on Thursday and said it was "not our job to fix the Chinese government."
 
Haha. Yahoo need the money, so I guess they are sacrificing on their morals :D
 
Did they get paid extra to put in all the blocking stuff?

If so, then her comments about fixing are fine. If they did it for free I'd suggest that Yahoo actually agrees with the Chinese.
 
http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2009/06/chinas-censorship-blowback.html

love this bit:

"we are going to acquaint your censorship machine with systematic sabotage and show you just how weak the claws of your censorship really are. We are going to mark you as the First Enemy of the Internet."

and this:

NOBODY wants to topple your regime. We take no interest whatsoever in your archaic view of state power and your stale ideological teachings. You do not understand how your grand narrative dissipated in the face of Internetization. You do not understand why appealing to statism and nationalism no longer works. You cannot break free from your own ignorance of the Internet. Your regime is not our enemy. We are not affiliated in any way with any country or organization, and we are not waging this war on any country or organization, not even on you. YOU are waging this war on yourself. YOU are digging your own grave through corruption and antagonization. We are not interested in you, destined for the sewage of history. You cannot stop the Internetization of the human race. In fact, we won't bat an eyelid even if you decide to sever the transpacific information cables in order to obtain the total control you wanted. The harder you try to roll back history, the more you strain the already taut strings, and the more destructive their final release. You are accelerating your own fall. The sun of tomorrow does not shine on those who are fearing tomorrow itself.

bold bits are my emphasis.
 
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