Free E-mail Accounts

[Wasatch Rebel]

Do any of you know of an outfit like Yahoo or Google that has free e-mail accounts? I'm trying to use these two losers as little as possible ever since they betrayed the Chinese dissidents and I'd like to get rid of my Yahoo account and find another company that's a little more friendly to freedom.

[Sombeech]

Do any of you know of an outfit like Yahoo or Google that has free e-mail accounts? I'm trying to use these two losers as little as possible ever since they betrayed the Chinese dissidents and I'd like to get rid of my Yahoo account and find another company that's a little more friendly to freedom.

Who's your ISP? They'll usually offer free email accounts, such as comcast.

BTW, what's the deal with Yahoo? I'm not up to speed with that news.

[Wasatch Rebel]

My ISP is Networld. They offer a Windows based email account through Outlook. I haven't figured out how it works yet and I've had a lot of trouble doing so--and more trouble trying to set up and email through Outlook. (When I see questions on the setup screen like "is this a pop3 connection?" I just go "what the heck is that?")

As for Yahoo, here's one of many links on the subject: http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/08/technology/yahoo_china_b20/

[Sombeech]

As for Yahoo, here's one of many links on the subject: http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/08/technology/yahoo_china_b20/

That's interesting. As I understand it, some people searched the interned using Yahoo and/or Google, and found certain things that were apparently illegal.

I'm not sure if the search engine can be blamed for this though. :ne_nau: Could we sue Yahoo or Google if we found child porn on the net through them? Or wouldn't it be the "provider's" fault for putting it on their site?

If Yahoo had referenced somebody to some confidential information, it would seem to me that it was the "author's" fault for not safeguarding that info from the internet in the first place.

[Wasatch Rebel]

It's not that. It's that in China there is a very repressive government and this guy was trying to drum up support for overthrowing that government and creating a new one dedicated to freedom--kind of like our American Revolution. Read this, it's a bit clearer:

Group: Yahoo Helped China Vs. Dissident

The Associated Press
Wednesday, April 19, 2006; 8:38 AM

BEIJING -- Yahoo Inc. turned over e-mail information of one of its users to Chinese authorities, who used the data to jail the account holder on subversion charges, a rights group said Wednesday.

It was the third time the U.S.-based Internet company has been accused of helping to put a Chinese user in prison.


Jiang Lijun, 39, was sentenced to four years in prison in November 2003 for posting Internet articles calling for the overthrow of the Communist Party.

Yahoo's Hong Kong unit gave authorities a draft e-mail that had been saved on Jiang's account, the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said, citing the verdict by the Beijing No. 2 People's Court. The group provided a translated copy of the verdict.

Entitled "Declaration," the draft was similar to manuscripts called "Freedom and Democracy Party Program" and "Declaration of Establishment" which were recovered from a computer and a floppy disk owned by two other activists, the verdict said.

The information was listed in the verdict under "physical evidence and written evidence."

Telephones at Yahoo's Hong Kong office and at Alibaba.com, which runs Yahoo's mainland China operations, rang unanswered on Wednesday evening.

"Little by little we are piecing together the evidence for what we have long suspected, that Yahoo is implicated in the arrest of most of the people we have been defending," Reporters Without Borders said in a statement.

Yahoo has also been criticized by rights groups by providing information in the cases of Li Zhi and Shi Tao.

Li, from southwestern China, was sentenced to prison for subversion after posting comments online criticizing official corruption. Shi, a reporter, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after he sent an e-mail abroad containing notes about a government memo on media restrictions.

[offpiste]

backpacker.com has free email accounts, you can get to it anywhere.

[Wasatch Rebel]

backpacker.com has free email accounts, you can get to it anywhere.

Thanks. I'll check into it.