Don't think I care for this trend....

Yahoo 'helped jail China writer'

"The media organization accused Yahoo of providing Chinese investigating organs with information that helped link Shi Tao's personal e-mail account and the text of the message to his computer."

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"We already knew that Yahoo! collaborates enthusiastically with the Chinese regime in questions of censorship, and now we know it is a Chinese police informant as well," Reporters Without Borders said in a statement.

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"Western internet companies have regularly been criticized for agreeing to China's strict rules governing the internet, which Communist Party leaders fear could be a tool to spread dissent.
Microsoft was criticized in June for censoring what bloggers write."

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"The companies say they have to abide by local regulations, and point out that since China is set to be the world's biggest internet market, they cannot ignore it."

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Upon reading this article, the following statement was the first thing to come to my mind;

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"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

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- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Has big business and media, in particular, forgotten the Founding Principles of Freedom entirely? The very Principles that have allowed them their existence? It would seem it has been lost in the dust, for the continuous quest for more 'mammon'.

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Shi Tao has received TEN YEARS in PRISON for WORDS which he wrote. And from what I've heard, Chinese prisons don't have the best 'accommodations. This mad, unprincipled, quest for 'filthy lucre' is disgusting!