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By: Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » Big trouble in a bigger China

Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » Big trouble in a bigger China — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:47:34 +0000

[…] So it seems the NUJ of UK and Ireland have called for a boycott of Yahoo! for their complicity in having a Chinese journalist jailed. Simon reminded us yesterday that it was the anniversary of the guy who stopped Chinese tanks with only the belief that freedom was worth facing down the killer machines of the Chinese Government. Now if only Yahoo! felt the same instead of being the co-driver in those thanks. Tom Raftery asked Bradley Horowitz before about Yahoo!’s bootlicking in China and he has also asked Vint Cerf about Google in China. Both gave bullshit answers in my view but these really are questions the top guys in Google and Yahoo! need to be answering. Terry Semel tried to defend Yahoo! recently and then someone asked the Nazi question. Would Yahoo! have done business with the Nazi’s if Yahoo! was around in that era and the guy said he didn’t know. I only just looked up Terry’s profile. He’s the damned CEO and he doesn’t know? You can forgive Bradley Horowitz but the guy where the buck stops doesn’t know. Dumbass. I guess their corporate philosophy is just some ornament to hang in the boardroom. Jeff Jarvis makes the usual sense but also tears big strips too. […]

By: Could podcasting get content through the Great Firewall of China? « Tom Raftery’s I.T. views

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:08:29 +0000

[…] I have spoken to several representatives of search engines recently and they have all told me that search engines are not indexing the audio content of podcasts and don’t have technologies to do so right now. […]

By: ByteSurgery » My questions to Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo - E-Media Development [ Robin Blandford ]

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:51:23 +0000

[…] You can download the show (8.4MB mp3) direct from PodLeaders.com and see that Bradley attempts to answer both questions (starting at 22 mins : 04 secs). While things look good on the video browsing side, he seemed a little unsure of the mobile question. TrackBack URI […]

By: Web 2.0 to suffer from United States Department of Justice request? « Tom Raftery’s I.T. views

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:49:32 +0000

[…] What was interesting for me was how the other search engines caved and handed over the data. I was interviewing Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo! the other night for a Podleaders.com podcast and, in the context of Yahoo! having previously provided information to the Chinese Government which resulted in a Chinese journalist being jailed for 10 years, I specifically asked him: If this had happened in the US would Yahoo! have fought the government request in the courts? […]

By: Damien Mulley’s Blog » Blog Archive » Tom Raftery Carole Coleman’s Yahoo

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:54:54 +0000

[…] In the his latest interview Tom Raftery grills Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo. Of particular interest is when Tom puts Yahoo on the spot for sponsoring spyware and fucking over that journalist in China: Yahoo! was at the receiving end of some negative publicity last year - In August, Ben Edelman outed Yahoo for funding Spyware developers, and in Sept, Yahoo! was accused by News.com of employing spyware tactics in its new version of its Instant Messenger app, does Yahoo! have a corporate Ethics Officer or a corporate Ethics statement that you follow? - 25:35 More bad PR in Sept when Chinese journalist Shi Tao was jailed for 10 years for posting “sensitive information�? after Yahoo! turned over his Yahoo! hosted email account to the Chinese government - is this a case of Yahoo! putting profit before human rights? - 27:44 If this had happened in the US would Yahoo! have fought the government request in the courts? 30:37 […]