"Yahoo! had a choice. It chose to provide an e-mail service hosted on servers based inside China, making itself subject to Chinese legal jurisdiction. It didn't have to do that. It could have provided a service hosted offshore only."
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Rebecca Mackinnon in Bruce Einhorn "A Cooler Look at Yahoo in China" Bloomberg, September 20, 2005
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