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{ 2006 02 19 }

Boycott Yahoo

On April 27, 2005, Shi Tao (a Chinese journalist) received a ten-year prison term for sending information about a Communist Party decision through his Yahoo email account to a website based in the United States. (Source: Amnesty)

In response to this, I’m redirecting inviting all the surfers that come here thru the Yahoo search engine, to the Amnesty International campaign to highlight Yahoo’s responsibility towards human rights in China and wherever it operates.

If you are a blogger, take action and do the same, or at least help spreading the word. The code needed for the redirecting is simple, and you only need to add it to your template, just after the BODY tag. Here the code I used. (Feel free to suggest improvements!)

UPDATE: I know that Google is not better, nor is Microsoft. I’ll do the same as soon as Amnesty (or others) will promote similar campaign against them.

UPDATE2: I changed the code to eliminate some false positives (including BooYahoo)

UPDATE3: New code. Read here.

 Il 27 Aprile 2005, Shi Tao (un giornalista cinese) viene condannato a 10 anni di galera per aver spedito negli USA informazioni su una decisione del Partito Comunista attraverso il suo account di posta su Yahoo. (Informazioni su: Amnesty Italia)

In risposta a questo, sto redirigendo invitando i visitatori che arrivano tramite la ricerca di Yahoo, verso la pagina della campagna di sensibilizzazione promossa da Amnesty per richiamare Yahoo al rispetto dei diritti umani in Cina e dovunque operi.

Se sei un blogger, passa all’azione. Puoi imitarmi, o almeno diffondere la notizia. Il codice per il redirect e’ semplice, e basta aggiungerlo subito dopo il tag BODY nel template. Qui segue quello che ho usato io. (Si accetano suggerimenti su come migliorarlo!)

UPDATE: So che Google non e’ migliore, ne’ lo e’ Microsoft. Faro’ lo stesso non appena Amnesty (o chi per loro) promuovera’ iniziative analoghe nei loro confronti.

UPDATE2: Cambiato il codice per ridurre i falsi positivi (incluso BooYahoo)

UPDATE3: Nuovo codice. Leggi qui.

tnx to eLLeGi and progosk

TAKE ACTION! La petizione di Amnesty International.

LINK: Il blog BooYahoo!

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Posted by DeK on Sunday, February 19, 2006, at 10:19. Filed under News. Tagged . Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

{ 7 } Comments

  1. Nic Seow | 20 February 2006 at 07:41 | Permalink

    How are you going to boycott Google when your blog is hosted on Blogger?

    Oh, maybe you could migrate to WordPress.com

  2. DeK - Delirium & Kaos | 20 February 2006 at 08:59 | Permalink

    Actually, I was trying out Wordpress… Anyway, I always loved contradictions!

    But it seems that acting this way will lead only to:

    a) Visitors seeing theirselves on the Amnesty website without knowing why, and closing the windows without reading.

    b) Yahoo removing me from their indexes.

    c) Nobody joining me, for the fear of point b.

    So I’m trying a softer approach, diplaying a brief and well visible text, for Yahoo users eyes only.

  3. Alex | 20 February 2006 at 09:41 | Permalink

    So let’s clarify – you don’t really give a rat about journalists jailed around the world, you are just supporting the cause of an organization that a few years ago was caught in a corruption scandal themselves.

    Otherwise where are boycott Google, MSN, Intel and US Government buttons?

  4. DeK - Delirium & Kaos | 20 February 2006 at 10:30 | Permalink

    Heh, a Boycott Everything button. Great idea. Go on and implement!
    I’ll be happy to join you when I’ll recover from the big headache I got right now…

  5. Nick | 29 March 2006 at 07:58 | Permalink

    Hi dek,

    I work at Amnesty and we obviously really liked your web action. We’re developing some new online actions around Yahoo as well as other companies and broader issues of Internet censorship and were thinking about promoting the little ‘dear yahoo user’ box idea to our worldwide membership –would you be comfortable with us using the idea? Instead of providing people with the full HTML script, we’ll be just providing a simple one-line of code (it might look a bit different) that will pull the rest from our server. That way, we can also keep it up to date with info on the status of those whose rights have been abused, progress, and other companies. We should be able to put a little ‘with thanks to blogger dek for the idea’ or something at the bottom. do you think that would be ok? We’d really like to get a lot more people behind this issue. Just an idea at this point…

    Nick

  6. DeK - Delirium & Kaos | 29 March 2006 at 23:18 | Permalink

    That would be great, Nick.
    Just, consider that Yahoo removed me from their indexes, despite of my updated script.

  7. . | 4 July 2006 at 16:22 | Permalink

    Which country is better ,the creators country or the users one.

    Difficult , the usa monitors it own population as well ,watching fox is hilarous.
    but then again , it does not give a 10 year sentence , yet..
    Anyone living in China knows sending an email can be lethal.

    anyone typing this critisism versus the usa on an us- based blogger knows he can get into trouble entering the states.
    (if you are not with us then you are against us…)
    Moahaha isn’t live a party Arnold ?
    schöne grüße von Heidi aus Tirol.

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