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Anything Yahoo! says rings false after the incident in 2002 when they willingly volunteered identifying data to the Chinese government about a user, which lande
by flyt 13y ago
Anything Yahoo! says rings false after the incident in 2002 when they willingly volunteered identifying data to the Chinese government about a user, which landed him in prison for ten years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/world/asia/wang-xiaoning-chinese-dissident-in-yahoo-case-freed.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/world/asia/wang-xiaoning-c...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Xiaoning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Xiaoning
- mathrawka 13y agoMore than 10 years have passed. The current Yahoo is very different than the Yahoo of 10 years ago. Whether they deserve to be given a second chance is to be decided by individual people and you are free to not trust them. Be glad that you are free enough to publicly voice your opinion in the matter.
- pyre 13y agoThis seems a odd stance to take. Whether or not Yahoo! is/was involved in PRISM seems divorced from their giving up of a Chinese political activist / radical. It might mean that you believe them capable of participating, but we don't even have direct confirmation of what PRISM is exactly. What if PRISM is a worm sitting on Yahoo!'s network? What if PRISM is interception of network activity going to/from Yahoo! and sending it off to some NSA data-center?