Yahoo! Co-Founder Defends Support for 'Great Firewall of China'
An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang defended the Internet search engine's cooperation with Chinese censorship of the Web, saying it was necessary to reach out to new users.More here.
US lawmakers have accused tech giants Yahoo, Google and Microsoft of helping sustain the so-called Great Firewall of China, which blocks searches of terms considered to be sensitive, such as "free speech" and "human rights."
But Yang said it was better to be in China than out.
posted by Fergie @ 3/28/2006 07:39:00 AM
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