{"id":3849,"date":"2006-04-28T13:19:40","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T20:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/04\/28\/yahoo-google-and-free-speech\/"},"modified":"2006-04-28T13:19:40","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T20:19:40","slug":"yahoo-google-and-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/28\/yahoo-google-and-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo, Google, and Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/richard_wray\/2006\/04\/the_true_price_of_doing_busine.html\">illustrious Guardian we learn:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYahoo appears to have kowtowed to the Chinese government yet again and passed details of a fourth dissident writer&#8217;s email account to the security forces, brightening the spotlight thrown on the dubious compromises that western businesses are making to operate within the world&#8217;s second largest internet market.<\/p>\n<p>Doing business in China has always involved a heavy dose of realpolitik &#8211; a senior mobile phone industry executive, desperate to get into the world&#8217;s fastest growing mobile market, once described operating in China to me as akin to walking into a room and taking down his trousers. But what makes Yahoo&#8217;s flagrant co-operation and the recent self-censorship carried out by search engine rival Google so shocking to web users, is that the internet has been sold to the world as a tool for free speech not for maintaining or even strengthening the political status quo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Google and Yahoo lecture the US Congress on free speech under the guise of &#8220;net neutrality&#8221; while helping communist China oppress dissidents. Who are they kidding?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the illustrious Guardian we learn: Yahoo appears to have kowtowed to the Chinese government yet again and passed details of a fourth dissident writer&#8217;s email account to the security forces, brightening the spotlight thrown on the dubious compromises that western businesses are making to operate within the world&#8217;s second largest internet market. Doing business &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/28\/yahoo-google-and-free-speech\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yahoo, Google, and Free Speech&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-105","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}