Seems like a classic case of covering your own ass.

This is a hilarious non-sequitor: "It's a new China, but this time Yahoo is the dictator. Yahoo should let the governments decide, not themselves."

Presumably, when China decides, it leads to a bad outcome. Yet China is a government. According to the "logic" of the pirate's statement, it would be better for China to censor the Internet than Yahoo! Yet, according to the same "logic" of his statement, China is a dictatorship, and thus should not be trusted.

The only theme underlying the pirate's post is this - self-interest. If China censored his page but Yahoo! allowed it, he would applaud Yahoo!, writing, "Private companies take a stand against dictatorship!"

(I do agree, though, that if Yahoo! is filtering certain pages for reasons unrelated to spam, then this is something we all should be disturbed by and should inquire into.)

We all should keep in mind that Google does this as well (although not for The Pirate Bay), usually citing "malware" as the reason. That said, at least Google still will show these results inline but will prevent users from clicking the link to go directly to the page.

All companies reserve the right and do filter out "objectionable" or irrelevant content, would be interesting to see a comparative breakdown of what each engine considers taboo.

Type Pirate Bay Download into the Yahoo search box and it is the FIRST result retuned.