{"id":3676,"date":"2005-09-10T12:18:36","date_gmt":"2005-09-10T12:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/yahoo-produces-chinese-email.html"},"modified":"2005-09-10T12:18:36","modified_gmt":"2005-09-10T12:18:36","slug":"yahoo-produces-chinese-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/yahoo-produces-chinese-email.html","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! Produces Chinese Email"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was a bit surprised to learn <\/font>from this story<\/font><\/a> that a journalist in China<\/country-region><\/place> was sentenced to jail for ten years after Chinese authorities requested a personal e-mail from Yahoo!. The e-mail was produced and subsequently handed over to Chinese authorities.<\/p>\n

Yahoo! Is active in China<\/country-region><\/place> and is trying to get a percentage of the Chinese market to use its various services.<\/p>\n

That leads me to why anyone living in China<\/country-region> would want to use an e-mail provider who actually has an office in China<\/country-region><\/place>. I would imagine using an e-mail provider in another country where China<\/country-region><\/place> has no authority would be smarter.<\/p>\n

I would imagine the same holds true for any country. My tip of the day is \u201cif you are a political dissident or think you might be nabbed by a regime who is trying to keep a lid on lots of sensitive information \u2013 like spreading democracy, try to find an e-mail provider who is located in a country that just doesn\u2019t get along with yours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is an excerpt from the article:<\/p>\n

<\/font>Yahoo earlier defended its move, saying it was obliged to comply with Chinese laws and regulations.<\/p>\n

The demand for the information was a "legal order" and Yahoo gets such requests from law enforcement agencies all the time, and not just in China<\/country-region><\/place>, Yang told the forum.<\/p>\n

But he added, "I cannot talk about the details of this case."<\/p>\n

Other Chinese journalists have faced similar charges of violating vague security laws as communist leaders struggle to maintain control of information in the burgeoning Internet era.<\/p>\n

Despite government information sharing requirements and other restrictions, Yahoo and its major rivals have been expanding their presence in mainland China in hopes of reaching more of the country’s fast-growing population of Internet users, which now number more than 100 million<\/font><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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