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

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via e-Mail Battles.

[snip]

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.

They asked... once again... if Yahoo would have helped Nazi Germany the same way.

Semel patiently explained... once again... that he's simply a businessman following local laws.

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."

...And anyway, it's not Yahoo collaborating. It's Yahoo's majority partner.

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."

[snip]

More:
http://www.emailbattles.com/archive/battles/privacy_aadiahcdad_bi/

- ferg


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