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2005-09-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by SwissTex 2005-09-11 19:53|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ve vere just followink orders!

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-09-11 22:07|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-09-11 22:07|| Front Page Top

#2 If you want to do business in China, you have to follow Chinese laws. It's easy for people who don't have any skin in the game to say that Yahoo should defy the Chinese government. After investing billions of dollars in setting up infrastructure and buying Chinese companies, Yahoo can't just walk away from the Chinese market. It's that simple. The fact is that Yahoo could no more defy a Chinese government request for information than it could defy a Congressional subpoena for information.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-09-11 22:08|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-09-11 22:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Its also easy for us in the West to refuse to use or invest in Chinese crackdowns. Yahoo, then Google, then MS -0 don't ivest - see where th estock prices go...think they rise under bad PR?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-09-11 22:34|| 2005-09-11 22:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Integrity and Honor are not items that show up on the corporate balance sheet.

Posted by DMFD 2005-09-11 22:41|| 2005-09-11 22:41|| Front Page Top

#5 FG: Its also easy for us in the West to refuse to use or invest in Chinese crackdowns. Yahoo, then Google, then MS -0 don't ivest - see where th estock prices go...think they rise under bad PR?

They rise or fall based on how much money they make, which in turn depends on whether they comply with the laws of the countries in which they do business. Bloomberg kowtowed to Singapore over some issue related to freedom of the press. Bloomberg is still the most important provider of financial terminals, bar none.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-09-11 23:00|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-09-11 23:00|| Front Page Top

#6 I forget which communist leader said that the west would sell them the rope they used to hang us.

The reassurances I'm now hearing that "of course they're now in a situation where they'll have to" doesn't make me feel better in the least.

Of course Yahoo has to do what it has to; and I'm going to NOT do business with them in the future if I can help it. I kinda-sorta feel it's what I have to do now.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-09-11 23:52|| 2005-09-11 23:52|| Front Page Top

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