text: why does yahoo block certain sites advocating free speech in china from being received in china? why is yahoo interested in free speech in the usa, but not in china?  is blocking advocate sites for free speech in china done because a "buck is a buck?"  does the sun really come up in the east?  hmmmm . . . . since the government controls the internet in china, yahoo (& google) block those sites so they can still get traffic from china - since china has the largest population, they feel it is too much of a risk to be completely blocked. so, they block a few sites, they continue getting those important "hits" to their web counters, the chinese government censors "subversive" material and the only loser is the chinese web surfer.