Re: [privacy] Yahoo! Boss: 'Not Sure If He'd Collaborate With Nazis'

[Marcos Agüero <maguero () s21sec com>]

Fergie escribió:
> Critics at the Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference demanded that Yahoo chief Terry Semel 
> explain... once again... the rationale for collaborating with Chinese authorities in ways that result in sending 
> non-violent political protestors to long jail sentences.
Refusing to work with China just because they had a dictator is like
commit suicide for a international company like yahoo. It's quotes will
fall down very deep. China is the biggest growing market in the world.

> They asked... once again... if Yahoo would have helped Nazi Germany the same way.
Seems that it had happen before
http://www.allbusiness.com/periodicals/article/102762-1.html

> Semel patiently explained... once again... that he's simply a businessman following local laws.
And serving investor and shareholders.

> Adding an extra dollop of sleazy moral equivalency, he weasled, "I don't feel good about what's happening in China 
> today. I don't feel good about some of the things that happen in our own country."
It's called criticism. I thought that free countries knew that.

> That evasion is more than blogger Dan Gilmor can stand. Labeling Yahoo a handmaiden to the dictators, he fumes, "It 
> insults people's intelligence; Yahoo's name is on the service, after all."
Oh! Pretty naive. It's just a company doing bussines. Much like Oil
companies.

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