Yahoo says China should stop punishing its citizens for political speech
In response to a question from the Associated Press, Yahoo said:
Yahoo is dismayed that citizens in China have been imprisoned for expressing their political views on the Internet.
The Chinese government thought about replying,”We just love it when foreigners try to tell us how to run our country.” But they came to one of two realizations:
- that the anti-cultural-imperialism dodge only works when the cultural imperialists are in the wrong.
- that as soon as a local company (perhaps one of Yahoo’s business partners) completely replicates all of Yahoo’s functionality they can cut the unruly foreign company loose and promote a local company who plays by party rules.
