April 2006
Reporters sans frontières - China : Yahoo ! implicated in third cyberdissident trial US company’s collaboration with Chinese courts highlighted in Jiang Lijun case
And del.icio.us was acquired by Yahoo! ... What am I supposed to do ?
February 2006
Yahoo! seeks help to fight China censors - report - Forbes.com
"Yahoo! Inc has called on Internet, media and communication companies and the US government to work together to counter Chinese censorship on the web, the Financial Times reported".
Boing Boing: NPR "Xeni Tech": Yahoo may have aided in jailing of second China writer
What the fuck, Yahoo!
January 2006
google-censor-cache.jpg (JPEG Image, 831x539 pixels) - Scaled (94%)
by 1 otherGoogle removed its help entry on censorship.
OpenNet Initiative Blog » Blog Archive » Google.cn Filtering: How It Works
"For example, the domain news.bbc.co.uk has been removed from www.google.cn. Using Google’ “site:” modifier, a search for “site:news.bbc.co.uk” in google.cn returns no results and appears as if there is not such a website all".
Bloomberg.com: Bloomberg Columnists - If It Isn't Red, You Can't Read It on Google: William Pesek Jr.
"At the very least, Google should stop calling itself an Internet ``search engine'' in China. Its description should now be ``limited search engine'' or ``government-controlled search engine".
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