{"id":8891,"date":"2006-04-21T13:56:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T13:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8891"},"modified":"2006-04-21T13:56:06","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T13:56:06","slug":"skype-sells-soul-to-china-cost-of-doing-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8891","title":{"rendered":"Skype Sells Soul to China: Cost of Doing Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another one from the &#8220;How Do You Sleep at Night?&#8221; File: Skype has joined the growing list of companies that are more than happy to engage in censorship for China as long as it plumps up their bottom line. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/875630d4-cef9-11da-925d-0000779e2340.html\" target=\"new\">piece<\/a> in the Financial Times, Skype has admitted that Tom Online, its partner company in China, has been censoring text messages with words like \u201cFalun Gong\u201d (the banned religious group) and &#8220;Dalai Lama&#8221; in them. Says Niklas Zennstr\u00f6m, Skypes&#8217;s CEO: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI may like or not like the laws and regulations to operate businesses in the UK or Germany or the US, but if I do business there I choose to comply with those laws and regulations. I can try to lobby to change them, but I need to comply with them. China in that way is not different.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Well DO let us know just as soon as you and Yahoo and Google and Microsoft start lobbying to change China&#8217;s laws and regulations and how you intend to do that while you&#8217;re pigging out in their tremendous trough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another one from the &#8220;How Do You Sleep at Night?&#8221; File: Skype has joined the growing list of companies that are more than happy to engage in censorship for China as long as it plumps up their bottom line. According to a piece in the Financial Times, Skype has admitted that Tom Online, its partner &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8891\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Skype Sells Soul to China: Cost of Doing Business&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}