Would Yahoo collaborate with the Nazis?

posted at 12:15 pm on June 2, 2006 by Allahpundit

Maybe. But they’d feel bad about it.

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This is pathetic to an extreme

Defector01 on June 2, 2006 at 12:30 PM

Sounds like Yahoo! has joined Google at the IG Farben school of business.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben

dung.

Moose Dung on June 2, 2006 at 12:37 PM

Yahoo and Google CEOs need to hire Slick Willy to handle these *difficult* questions. They are flopping around on the dock gasping for air.

Essex on June 2, 2006 at 12:37 PM

Yahoo (and Google and all the rest) say they are just obeying the law. They have no choice.

But they DO have a choice…they don’t have to be there. No one is forcing them to be there. Period.

They are prostituting themselves for the almighty dollar, or Yuan or euro, or whatever is the coin of the realm at any given moment.

It is also a lie to say that their presence assists Chinese researchers/surfers, because access to some information is better than access to none. Wrong again. Yahoo and Google are simply aiding and abetting in dictatorial censorship…they are complicit in the suppression of freedom of thought.

Blaise on June 2, 2006 at 12:42 PM

I guess it depends on what the word NazIS IS!

bucktowndusty on June 2, 2006 at 12:43 PM

Der Yahoo ist dumbkopf.

clyde on June 2, 2006 at 1:05 PM

All depends on today’s NASDAQ closing!

Dread Pirate Roberts VI on June 2, 2006 at 1:07 PM

I’m not shocked by much in this day and age, but I honestly don’t really know what to say about that. With the powers of perspective and history, the fact that he can still be wishy-washy on such a (should be) slam-dunk issue simply takes my breath away.

Wineaholic on June 2, 2006 at 1:26 PM

And Microsoft too, right?

Alex K on June 2, 2006 at 1:58 PM

After the meeting, ‘SGT Shultz’ Semel said – “I see NOTHING! I see NOTHING!”

WC on June 2, 2006 at 2:11 PM

I posted at my blog awhile back that it-my blog-might disappear suddenly, as I often make mention of the false religion Islam, and speak out against Muslim terrorists.
I have a Blogspot blog; Google bought Blogspot, and if they decide to eliminate free speech by “guarding against hate speech” I am out. It can happen here.

Doug on June 2, 2006 at 2:44 PM

A clear case of greed winning out over morality.

speed647 on June 2, 2006 at 2:54 PM

I guess he feels just as bad as Gore does from taking campaign money from the chinese. not!

pullingmyhairout on June 2, 2006 at 3:16 PM

I’m in the same boat, Doug. All we can do preemtively archive against the possibility.

inmanjh on June 2, 2006 at 3:37 PM

achtung colonel clink
I have no idea how the democratic websites got into the mainframe!

Defector01 on June 2, 2006 at 3:51 PM

Collecting data on terrorists out to destroy the USA and pro-democratic Chinese trying to undermine the Communists is the same thing, right?

Heck, look at all Bill Clinton did for the Chinese for a small fee. I’m sure a good chunk of this money will make its way back to the Dems. Plus with Bush as President, the USA is as bad as Communist China. Just ask the corporate boys at Google and Yahoo.

Hening on June 2, 2006 at 5:00 PM

I’m with you, speed647: Follow the money; honor, integrity, morality and virtue be damned.

Aunt B on June 2, 2006 at 5:37 PM

YE$.

easy87us on June 2, 2006 at 11:55 PM

I fear the rush to China’s market will trample on it’s own people.

When everyone is in jail, who’s gonna buy the product.

Don’t compromise your values. If you have any at all…. sheesh!

Kini on June 6, 2006 at 9:24 PM