Comments on: I Do Not (and Will Not) Yahoo!

By: Business Plans

Business Plans — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:05:35 +0000

Boo on Yahoo….I had NO idea. I find this disturbing!!! Glad I read this ; (

By: Kyle Bennett

Kyle Bennett — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:44:50 +0000

In the spirit of Yakov Smirnoff: “In some countries, you don’t search Yahoo, Yahoo searches you!”

By: Jim Etchison

Jim Etchison — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:22:05 +0000

I love this! While searching technorati posts for like-minded people, I found you. I’m attempting to get an organized boycott of Yahoo! going. The website is http://www.booyahoo.blogspot.com.

Thanks for the graphic banners. They’re great. :D

By: Thomas blumer

Thomas blumer — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:37:37 +0000

I like the idea of “Yahooed” being a verb.

By: Douglas Joseph

Douglas Joseph — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:45:16 +0000

I was shocked when I read that Yahoo! gave up a journalist. If anything, I was under the impression that modern internet gurus were a portal to morality and a medium for improving and paving a better way in the world.

I was wrong, especially about Yahoo! To me, now Yahoo! is synonymous with coward! Now when I yell at someone, “Yahoo!,” I mean I am calling that someone, “Coward!” Yahoo! represents to me everything wrong with the quest for wealth. The journalist, Shi Tao, got Yahoo!ed: a despicable act of cowardice.

Douglas Joseph.

THere’s got to be a better way than being a Yahoo!

By: TBlumer

TBlumer — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 21:55:23 +0000

#7--very nice work, RubÃ©n.

I intend to split your graphic in half and post it near the top right of my blog starting Monday instead of using my artistry-challenged graphic.

Â¡Su talento artÃstico es mejor que mÃo!

By: blogbis

blogbis — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 19:09:56 +0000

Thanks for linking to BlogBis

Now you can find an english version for the yahoo banner, based on your translation
check it at http://blogbis.blogspot.com/2005/09/para-ampliar-una-nota-irnica-del.html

By: TBlumer

TBlumer — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:52:40 +0000

#5–very sad.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:45:41 +0000

It is also happening to decent Chinese people who use Skype.Resonses to me end up with nothing but squares,with commas etc.Seems ordinary folks aren’t allowed to communicate with friends over there in any way/shape/form.Pretty drastic measures indeed.

By: TBlumer

TBlumer — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:12:49 +0000

#3, point is well taken in that no one has come out and said whether existing laws about providing sensitive technology to communist entities apply. The laws exist and the question is whether they apply to high-tech things. DOJ is asleep.

Until the politicians figure it out, consumers who care and disagree with what a company is doing only have non-use as an option.

I suppose the same would apply to truly abusive (as opposed to market-evolving) labor practices. If you're going to go there, China, with slave labor and its active antiunion efforts, would be on the top of that list too.

By: Editor

Editor — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:36:39 +0000

That's a tough line for a multinational business to walk on. Who determines whatâ€™s proper speech? Where do you risk losing your entire business? In a true market economy does the actor have any role in making political decisions that will adversely affect their bottom line? So far the answer to that question has always been no. Howâ€™s this any different than ignoring abusive labor practices in voting for CAFTA?

As long as there are no ground rules, donâ€™t expect other businesses to act any different than Yahoo! does. Setting political ground rules is the job of politicians, not markets.

By: TBlumer

TBlumer — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:19:59 +0000

A lot of sites noted this yesterday (Roger Simon, Little Green Footballs, Instapundit), but no one has called for a boycott. I'm one of the few with a Yahoo! link at my blog (no longer). The WSJ editorialized earlier today.

The question is what to do. I'm thinking about what might be effective and visible.

By: LargeBill

LargeBill — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:05:48 +0000

Yahoo provides nothing that isn’t available through other sources. This info needs wider disemination