Nowadays, nobody can deny that China is one of the nations with the worst policy regarding Human Rights and Freedom of Speech.

While people around the world embrace the information age, the technology, the social networking websites, and the means to be connected, the Chinese government is relentlessly ruling against all that.

Today, the Internet has became so vital to our life; we cannot live without being connected. It is a convinient and powerful tool to enrich one’s knowledge, meet new people, exchange ideas and information, form alliance, bring about changes, to have an impact on society, and to improve social conditions around the world. And that's exactly what the China's government does not want its people to be able to do.

In the United States of America, access to the Internet is guaranteed, as being protected by our first amendment. However, China’s government, acting as “Big Brothers”, dictate how people should use the Internet in China. They monitor and filter all information that come in or out of China, a gross violation against Human Rights and Freedom of Speech.

That is what's happening in China; and the China government got help. The help is from Yahoo.com enterprise. Yahoo has been aiding the dictators. The enterprise's practices and policies support outrageous demands from the dictatorial government to reassure its iron grips on its people, especially on the protestors. Placing business interest above human rights, Yahoo has no regards for the safety of millions, even billions, of innocent, vulnerable Internet users.

It is no accident that the first amendment of the United States of America’s Constitutions is the Freedom of Speech (and the right to assemble). Our founding fathers knew better. That was how our fathers got rid of the monarchy, and were able to build America into what it becomes today.

Yahoo has violated the most fundamental right of all people around the world, Freedom of Speech, by handing the sword to the dictatorial government to strike on its people. Remember the dissidents that were imprisoned by the Chinese government after Yahoo revealed their true identities?

Like China, Vietnam also wants to shut down all the social networking websites in VN, fearing Freedom of Speech and people assembling in Cyberspace. Yahoo also helped them, by shutting down the Yahoo 360, which serves mostly Vietnamese people, many of them.

Even though Yahoo said they had set up a better replacement, but that is not true. The political impact will never be the same. What had taken place was spontaneous. Now, people will have to think very hard before using Yahoo 360 Plus to voice their disagreement with the government in Vietnam.

Who knows what Yahoo is capable of revealing next?