Yahoo shuts down entirely in China, citing 'increasingly challenging' environment
The company’s service became unavailable to anyone on mainland China on Nov. 1
The Chinese government requiring companies to censor content and language it deems to be politically sensitive or otherwise inappropriate. In its statement, Yahoo noted that it "remains committed to the rights of our users and a free and open internet."
The company's shuttering in China coincides with a new Chinese law – the Personal Information Protection Law – going into effect. The legislation puts a tighter leash on the sorts of information companies can gather and establishes parameters for how it must be stored.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.It's about time one or two corporations woke up to the fact that the Chinese economy is like flypaper, smells sweet but holds you like glue until you are a dessicated corpse.
FuzzyMarineVet
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Nov 2, 2021
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And we in the West are trying to catch up.
ScottforKing
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Nov 2, 2021
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The difference is that in China it is the government that is doing the tyrannizing, while for us it's the corporations that do business with China.
@FuzzyMarineVet The corporations are also doing business with the political class here in the West.
@ScottforKing True, but unfortunately for the political class in the West there are still a few constraints on their tyranny not applicable to corporations that are not acting as agents of the government. What is going to bite the big tech oligarchs, especially Zuck, is the fact that the government is directing their censorship.
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