Yahoo! is making some sort of support for Google's decision to ignore the censorship laws but Yahoo! owned Alibaba calls it "reckless." Again, it's nice to see Google come around though many - myself included - remain suspicious of their recent support of a censorship-free position. State controlled censorship and other distasteful business acts such as arrests, bribes and low quality are a fact of life when doing business in China. That sounds a lot more "reckless" but what else is a leading internet business going to say in China if it wants to stay in business. Can the West finally admit that the Olympics were a sham and that they didn't change anything? This is the price that any western business will pay if they want to attempt to do business in China.
China's e-commerce giant Alibaba turned on major shareholder Yahoo Inc. on Saturday, calling the American company's support of Google in its standoff with China "reckless."How many other Western businesses will suddenly wake up and complain about censorship and rigged business once the bubble bursts?
Google has promised to stop censoring its search results in China, threatening to pull out of the country altogether if it can't operate an unfiltered search engine. Yahoo has said it was "aligned" with Google's position, though it's not clear what that means.
"Alibaba Group has communicated to Yahoo! that Yahoo's statement that it is 'aligned' with the position Google took last week was reckless given the lack of facts in evidence," Alibaba spokesman John Spelich said Saturday. "Alibaba doesn't share this view."
