Yahoo censors more Chinese than the Chinese
Found on The Inquirer on Friday, 16 June 2006
Search engine outfit, Yahoo! is more ruthless at censoring its content in China than the locals, a media watch dog has barked.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said their tests showed that Yahoo.cn blocked a higher percentage of politically sensitive results than Google.cn or the beta version of msn.cn.
A spokesman for the group said that Google.cn is censored, but it’s far less than what Yahoo. Even Baidu didn't restrict access to some of the sites that Yahoo did.
Yahoo.cn and Baidu block access to the search engines for an hour in half the cases after a search was conducted using the sensitive keywords.
China is one of the biggest markets right now; and it looks like Yahoo thinks that it's a perfect idea to please the government by showing how understanding it is.