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By N.Raider - Feb 5th, 2008 at 3:01 pm EST

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Tags: AOL, corporate media, google, Microsoft, Yahoo

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You are sitting at your computer, typing an email. You would not give it a second thought...unless your email provider allowed the government to read all your emails. This is exactly what happens...

...in the People's Republic of China. Both Google and Yahoo! have cooperated with the communist government in the People's Republic to crack down on pro-democracy adovocates, which has rightfully sparked staunch opposition from NGOs such as Amnesty International. I have Yahoo! Mail, which may (or may not) be purchased by Microsoft, our friendly neighborhood monopolist. The two events described above have prompted me to look elsewhere for an email provider; however, my other options are human rights abuser Google (operator of Gmail) or corporate media conglomerate AOL Time Warner.

Herein lies my dilemma (and hopefully now the dilemma of those reading this with Gmail, Yahoo!, or AOL accounts). Do we become Luddites and embark on the path of removing email from our lives? Or are there other alternatives that we can pursue without compromising our moral standards?

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Complexity at its finest.

By Preston Mitchum Feb 6th 2008 at 1:37 pm EST

This is an extreme dilemma. I am somewhat of a conspiracy theorist at times, so I was nervous about this even before this blog post. Nevertheless, it would be inconvenient to attempt to remove email from our lives. Not too mention that it would be insane to think of any alternatives since we have a great option in front of us today. I am not sure what to do, but this situation is sad, and quite scary.

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