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haxxiy on 28 May 2019
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SpokenTruth said:
haxxiy said:

The "Yahoo" brand of internet services and the company which owns 16% shares on Alibaba have nothing to do with each other nowadays. The former is owned by Verizon, and the latter (which is literally over an order of magnitude more valuable than the Yahoo brand itself) is an independent investment company going by another name.

Either way, the censorship of Google predates these deals by years.

I believe you have that backwards.  Yahoo invested $1 billion into Alibaba back in 2005 (40% ownership).  China started blocking Google services in 2009 (Youtube) with another round of blocks in 2011 (Docs, Sites, Plus) and most being blocked in 2014 (Search, APIs, Gmail). 

While true the 2017 Verizon/Yahoo deal (known as Altaba and still has a 16% stake in Alibaba) is very different, that's not how it was back when Google was getting blocked...and Yahoo was not.

You're right. It's not the censorship of Google specifically, but of the Internet that predates the deal. Either way, Yahoo is not, and has never been, a popular search engine in China. Even today it's behing Google and Bing.

If someone believes it was lobbying, they have at least to agree it's piss poor lobbying. The main beneficiaries of the censorship have been Baidu, Soso and Sugou... Alibaba's direct competitors in the internet services market.