Yahoo blackout group?
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=68242022391
Yahoo has incredibly fascist and immoral practices over seas.
In September 2005, Reporters Without Borders reported the following story. In April 2005, Shi Tao, a journalist working for a Chinese newspaper, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Changsha Intermediate People’s Court of Hunan Province, China (First trial case no. 29), for “providing state secrets to foreign entities”. The “secrets” were a brief list of censorship orders he sent from a Yahoo! Mail account to the Asia Democracy Forum before the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Incident. Yahoo! Holdings (the Hong Kong subsidiary of Yahoo) told the Chinese government that the IP address used to send the email was registered by the Hunan newspaper that Shi Tao worked for. Police went straight to his offices and picked him up.
Criticism of Yahoo! intensified in February 2006 when Reporters Without Borders released Chinese court documents stating that Yahoo! aided Chinese authorities in the case of dissident Li Zhi. In December 2003 Li Zhi was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for “inciting subversion”.
Wang Xiaoning is a Chinese dissident from Shenyang who was arrested by authorities of the People’s Republic of China for publishing controversial material online.
In 2000 and 2001, Wang, who was an engineer by profession, posted electronic journals in a Yahoo! group calling for democratic reform and an end to single-party rule. He was arrested in September 2002 after Yahoo! assisted Chinese authorities by providing information. In September 2003, Wang was convicted of charges of “incitement to subvert state power” and sentenced to ten years in prison.
We should plan a black out of all Yahoo! services, for three days. Yahoo! depends deeply on the free markets of the West, and by helping Anti-Western states like China weed out insurgents trying to bring democracy and freedom of speech to China.
If you want to do the Yahoo! black out, send me a PM, or join the group.
Salvador says:
February 7th, 2010 at 1:49 am
A three day blackout will not change much, you’ll need to have a total boycott of both yahoo and their sponsors if you wish to change the way they do business.
Askal says:
February 7th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
A blackout wouldn’t work nearly as well as having a mass exodus from Yahoo to Google. That would certainly impact on Yahoo profits and could be the “genesis” of their bankruptcy.
I would be willing to do that, but only if Google has the equivalent of Y!A where I can continue annoying religious fundamentalists on R&S. Otherwise, count me out. If you can tell me that there is a Google R&S forum like Yahoo’s, pass it on for my consideration. Thanks.
By the way, I’ve noticed that you posted the same question less than an hour ago. Once is not enough?
THX says:
February 9th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
You are going to get in big trouble. I know,because I once spoke out against Yahoo on the forums and I thought they were going to take away my account. Watch yourself they have the power.
tj says:
February 11th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Im afraid that’s China , if your in that country you do as the govt. says or you die.try practicing a religion there.
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