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SLG
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 Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:36 am Post subject: Boycott Yahoo! |
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| Quote: | NUJ advises boycott of ‘unethical’ Yahoo!
The National Union of Journalists is advising its 40,000 members to boycott all Yahoo! products and services in protest at its repeated collusion with the Chinese authorities.
In a letter to Yahoo! Europe's vice president Dominique Vidal, the union's new media council said that NUJ members have been unanimous in their condemnation of Yahoo!.
The search portal provided information to Chinese authorities that helped identify and prosecute several journalists and pro-democracy writers.
Shi Tao was sentenced to 10 years in prison for forwarding a government email to the foreign press. The authorities had tried to warn journalists of the 'danger' posed by the return of dissidents on the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Jiang Lijun was sentenced to four years in November 2003 after Yahoo! provided information that helped identify him. He was sentenced for writing articles that called the Chinese government "autocratic" and said that he favoured a western-style democracy.
Li Zhi was sentenced to eight years for discussing pro-democracy issues in a web forum and for emailing pro-democracy campaigners.
"The Chinese government has an atrocious record of censorship and free expression and it is essential that the rest of the world publicly objects to and campaigns against this repressive regime," said Jeremy Dear, general secretary of the NUJ.
"The NUJ regards Yahoo!'s actions as a completely unacceptable endorsement of the Chinese authorities. As a result, the NUJ will be cancelling all Yahoo!-operated services and advising all members to boycott Yahoo! until the company changes its irresponsible and unethical policy."
Members are advised to contact the new media council for advice on alternative email, group forum and portal services.
02/06/06 |
http://www.nuj.org.uk/
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azzuri
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| Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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...better boycott Google as well then - because they did something very similiar in China last year.
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SLG
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| Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Aye, you're right. I still use the Google search engine. I don't use their email though. I'll also try and use Yahoo! less now. |
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Maol.Chaluim
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| Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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I knew that Google had allowed the Chinese government to monitor their traffic, but have they actually gone as far as Yahoo? I was all ready to get rid of my Yahoo account (which I've had for my whole internet life) and switch to Gmail. What am I going to do now?
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