Boycott Yahoo, Microsoft and Google
Simon Johnson | 20.06.2006 15:27 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles
In light of the collaboration of the, profit-first morality second, corporate interests with China to imprison it's own people I have decided to boycott these bastards. I would encourage you to take a stand too and withdraw your support.
In light of the collaboration of the, profit-first morality second, corporate interests with China to imprison it's own people I have decided to boycott these bastards.
I would encourage you to take a stand too and withdraw your support.
BBC report
Google's launch of a new, self-censored search engine in China is a "black day" for freedom of expression, a leading international media watchdog says.
Reporters Without Borders joined others in asking how Google could stand up for US users' freedoms while controlling what Chinese users can search for.
"Google's statements about respecting online privacy are the height of hypocrisy in view of its strategy in China," said Reporters Without Borders.
Reporters Without Borders
Information supplied by Yahoo! helped journalist Shi Tao get 10 years in prison
The text of the verdict in the case of journalist Shi Tao - sentenced in April to 10 years in prison for “divulging state secrets abroad” - shows that Yahoo! Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd. provided China’s state security authorities with details that helped to identify and convict him, Reporters Without Borders said today.
Take Action
1. Stop using the Google, Yahoo and Microsoft services. Close your accounts too.
2. Sign the online petitions
Free Tibet
Boycott Google
Yahoo Boycott
3. Write to the collaborating bastards at Yahoo & Google.
Phone, fax or email Google office in the UK and ask them to pass a message onto their Chair and CEO, Dr. Eric Schmidt protesting Google's actions. Please inform us of your participation with a short email to
campaigns@freetibet.org or fax to 020 7324 4606 and note on the subject line: Google Campaign.
Google's office details: phone: +44 (0)20 7031 3000 fax: +44 (0)20 7031 3001 or c/o Ema Linaker UK PR Specialist +44 (0) 20 7031 3130 ema@google.com Debbie Frost International PR Manager +1-650-253-4660 dfrost@google.com
4. Spread the word. Via email, at the pub and on your blogs!
5. Start using ALTAVISTA or another service that isn't partaking in violating human rights.
AltaVista
Here is a typical letter. Please feel free to copy.
Dear Yahoo-ers,
I know that you have received tons of complaints about your disgraceful collaboration with the human-rights-abusing Chinese authorities.
I am thinking specifically about the case of poor Mr Shi Tao, the Chinese journalist.
Please try to put human decency ahead own materialistic agenda for once.
Being a police informant is the lowest one can be. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Imagine if your employees had grown a backbone and stood up to management and resisted. Imagine if all rich corporations has stood in unison and refused to comply with this immoral dictate.
Maybe if you had stood up, a good man wouldn't be rotting in prison for 10 years.
In time you will be remembered like IBM is today, as a Nazi collaborator.
Please do your utmost to redress your criminal involvement and issue an apology. In the mean time I will boycott your activities and others such as yourselves.
Sincerely,
[your name]
For comments and further action please visit my Blog
http://blog.virtual3.co.uk/blog/_archives/2006/6/20/2043705.html
I would encourage you to take a stand too and withdraw your support.
BBC report
Google's launch of a new, self-censored search engine in China is a "black day" for freedom of expression, a leading international media watchdog says.
Reporters Without Borders joined others in asking how Google could stand up for US users' freedoms while controlling what Chinese users can search for.
"Google's statements about respecting online privacy are the height of hypocrisy in view of its strategy in China," said Reporters Without Borders.
Reporters Without Borders
Information supplied by Yahoo! helped journalist Shi Tao get 10 years in prison
The text of the verdict in the case of journalist Shi Tao - sentenced in April to 10 years in prison for “divulging state secrets abroad” - shows that Yahoo! Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd. provided China’s state security authorities with details that helped to identify and convict him, Reporters Without Borders said today.
Take Action
1. Stop using the Google, Yahoo and Microsoft services. Close your accounts too.
2. Sign the online petitions
Free Tibet
Boycott Google
Yahoo Boycott
3. Write to the collaborating bastards at Yahoo & Google.
Phone, fax or email Google office in the UK and ask them to pass a message onto their Chair and CEO, Dr. Eric Schmidt protesting Google's actions. Please inform us of your participation with a short email to
campaigns@freetibet.org or fax to 020 7324 4606 and note on the subject line: Google Campaign. Google's office details: phone: +44 (0)20 7031 3000 fax: +44 (0)20 7031 3001 or c/o Ema Linaker UK PR Specialist +44 (0) 20 7031 3130
ema@google.com Debbie Frost International PR Manager +1-650-253-4660 dfrost@google.com 4. Spread the word. Via email, at the pub and on your blogs!
5. Start using ALTAVISTA or another service that isn't partaking in violating human rights.
AltaVista
Here is a typical letter. Please feel free to copy.
Dear Yahoo-ers,
I know that you have received tons of complaints about your disgraceful collaboration with the human-rights-abusing Chinese authorities.
I am thinking specifically about the case of poor Mr Shi Tao, the Chinese journalist.
Please try to put human decency ahead own materialistic agenda for once.
Being a police informant is the lowest one can be. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Imagine if your employees had grown a backbone and stood up to management and resisted. Imagine if all rich corporations has stood in unison and refused to comply with this immoral dictate.
Maybe if you had stood up, a good man wouldn't be rotting in prison for 10 years.
In time you will be remembered like IBM is today, as a Nazi collaborator.
Please do your utmost to redress your criminal involvement and issue an apology. In the mean time I will boycott your activities and others such as yourselves.
Sincerely,
[your name]
For comments and further action please visit my Blog
http://blog.virtual3.co.uk/blog/_archives/2006/6/20/2043705.html
Simon Johnson
e-mail:
virtual3@mac.com
Homepage:
http://blog.virtual3.co.uk
Comments
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Scroogle
20.06.2006 16:00
Buying cheap Chinese goods is social suicide because a nation without work is a nation which will self implode.
As for Google, use Scroogle instead and bypass the ads.
Scroogle uses googles search engines but strips the adverts.
You can find it using Google, and webmasters can use a scroogle search box instead of the google one.
Google is an ad farm, ran by greedy people who don't mind kissing government backside and giving names of people who search for anti Chinese websites to the Chinese government. Its not just about blocking sites, Google will have the ip number and the list of evidence and will hand it over to those secret police who like having lists of what we read and so on.
Google are like the French who gave the names of people who sympathised with the Jews.
We should all boycott it, and any websites using google search engines ought to dump it and use scroogle.
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