via: eswn
Bloomberg columnist William Pesek Jr. asks chinese people to boycott MSN/yahoo:
Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model,'' said Rebecca MacKinnon, a former Beijing bureau chief for CNN now specializing in Web censorship.
It's all futile, though. China will find it harder and harder to police fast-changing technologies and fast-learning bloggers. All Chinese consumers may remember years from now is how the biggest names in technology once helped keep them down. Along with a Chinese firewall, they may be creating barriers between themselves and future users.
I'd like to see the country's consumers boycott Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and others. It's just not clear that the message would reach many in China.
honestly, to achieve the same goal, chinese consumers should support the expansions of both microsoft and yahoo, so someday in the future, just like chinese are following the "game rules" of WTO in the business world, chinese media (or at least the online part) will be so integrated into the outside world that they must follow the universally accepted rules and norms and, finally all will realize and agree that microsoft and yahoo, by compromising in hte short term, are the biggest outsider contirbutors to destroying chinese internet censorship.
as for boycotting MSN/yahoo, since they insulted the core value of the american country, may i suggest that americans boycott MSN/yahoo in the US? both chinese and americans will be happy then.