Know your Yahoo

Yahoo has been found to use its technology to track and give information about dissidents to Chinese government. Many champions of freedom in China are now in detention thanks to sleuth work of Yahoo. That in Business terminology it is referred to as ‘strategical understanding’. How much ‘investors are happy’ one doesn’t know (incidentally investors are gods in this cozy little world) but yes top Chinese commies are not complaining. Capitalists of world unite you have nothing to loose but your ethics. That’s Chinese trap for you!! (a kind of counter McCarthyism and as part of tradition Yahoo is too happy to oblige).

‘Total’ an oil giant want to keep sucking in Burma their argument is enlightening ‘if we don’t do it someone else will do it’. Such commitments and dedication to their job, we mortals have to learn a lot.

So next time you use Yahoo forget not to appreciate the sacrifices they are doing to maximize their profit. It is the ultimate act in the globalized world. World will be a better place to live if we emulate them in our daily life, individually and collectively. Yahoo will of course justify that ‘it has nothing to do with business it is a political matter’. If only drug peddlers could use the same subtleties.

For politicians Politics is Business, for fund raisers (read businessmen) Business is Politics. For Yahoo, Business is not Politics but Service, profit is just incidental!!. For Chinese, Politics and Business are Service it just that commies are thick headed when it comes to be bothered about people- the reason why capitalism can flourish unhindered in commieland, it is better option than democracy. The irony is hard to miss and as Marx should have put it so rightly “bloody the dissidents comrades, the dialectics of materialism starts in Beijing”.

Should this be confined to US Congress only? Shouldn’t international community take action against unethical practices followed by Yahoo??.Privacy is as important particularly of common people, probably more important than much hyped freedom of expression. State or corporate has absolutely no business to intrude into privacy of people.