It may be renowned for censoring all kinds of content on the Internet, but the Chinese market is too huge for Yahoo to ignore. That's why Yahoo is planning to launch a version of the popular photo sharing site Flickr in China this year. In fact, it's worth noting that Flickr is not among the many, many sites currently on China's block list (it has, however, been blocked in the United Arab Emirates).
The new site, written in traditional Chinese, will target users in Hong Kong first, before moving on to Taiwan. The feature set will be much the same as the existing Flickr, Yahoo said.
Moving into China is sometimes controversial: will Yahoo be faced with the same dilemma as Google - trading morals for the huge money making opportunity of the Chinese market? And will China change its view on blocking Flickr when it realizes that the site is full of soft porn and provides open access to politically sensitive images like the one below?