[lit-ideas] Yahoo! Traitors with Clinton Sidebar
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 02:19:20 -0400
extract from Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant blog at
http://www.edrants.com/
When You’re a Fink, You’re a Fink All the Way
If you have a Yahoo email account and you eventually find yourself
writing about something that might be considered inexplicably
dangerous (if not now, then perhaps in the not-too-distant future),
you may want to ensure that your personal information is fabricated.
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has confirmed that Yahoo provided
journalist Shi To’s private information to Chinese authorities. The
journalist was then sentenced to ten years in prison. What was Shi’s
crime? He dared to spell out media restrictions in place within
China. Former President Bill Clinton also weighed in at an Internet
forum, saying, “The internet, no matter what political system a
country has, and our political system is different from yours, the
internet is having significant political and social consequences and
they cannot be erased.” He then went into a panegyric about how none
of this had any negative effects on e-commerce.
It’s good to know that in the Clinton and Yang vision of the
Internet, business comes first and that political extradition and
freedom of speech is as expungable as a spam message.
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