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

[Dan Renner <dan () losangelescomputerhelp com>]

Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:46:27 +0200

> From: Marcos Ag?ero <maguero () s21sec com>
> Subject: Re: [privacy] Yahoo! Boss: 'Not Sure If He'd Collaborate With
>       Nazis'
> To: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
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> Fergie escribi?:
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> > 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.
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> > 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
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> > Semel patiently explained... once again... that he's simply a businessman following local laws.
> >    
> And serving investor and shareholders.
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> > 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.
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> > 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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"It's just a company doing business"?

You are saying that it's ok to cause people to be put in jail so investors can make money.

'Good corporate pet, now go make my coffee...'

If you can't live by standards that you believe in, no matter what you are doing, what good are you to even yourself, 
much less a company or the world in general?

In Mr. Semel's case, if he was following company policy that it's ok to cause destruction to humans in order to make a 
profit, then he did good for his company and his company sucks.

But, if in doing so, he violated his own moral code, then he isn't worth an ant-hill of beans to himself.  And that 
would suck _much_ worse.


Dan Renner
President
Los Angeles Computerhelp
http://losangelescomputerhelp.com
818.352.8700

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