Yahoo! to cease email services in China

So very recently Yahoo! announced that it will shut down its mail service in China schedules to start on April 18th and be completed by Aug 19th. There are speculations that Yahoo!'s market value in China has been shrinking significantly because they have leaked user information to the Chinese government. Alibaba, an e-commerce company that runs Yahoo China decided to terminate Yahoo mail service but keep the news and search engine part of the web site.

It is believed that Yahoo China's shrinking popularity caused its unprofitability, in the capitalistic society of China, Alibaba decides to place profitability above users' interests. Yahoo China has urged its users to export their important emails to AliCloud, which is a less prominent mail service ran by Alibaba. This change will cause Yahoo mail users tremendous inconvenience: they will be forced to switch to a less pronounced mail service provider and they have to use a new email account. My mum has been using a Yahoo account for years and that is also the email address she printed on her business cards. Now she will have to make a whole new bunch of business cards. My mum is just one of the hundreds or thousands of users being affected, the exact number has yet to be confirmed.

Very well Yahoo!, first you leaked all the confidential informations to Chinese government and saying that "The company said it was legally obliged to divulge information about its users to the Chinese government but that it was unaware it would be used to convict dissidents. " I am just wondering what does Yahoo! mean here by "legally obliged", according to whose law and what else does Yahoo! think the Chinese government is going to use these information for? and now there is this, Yahoo! is generously dismantling its image in China and wasting away its capitals. I hope other companies that have a vast interest in China will not repeat the same mistake.