I guess money is more important to Yahoo than free speech, human
rights, facts, or promoting democracy. (For the unaware, "grass"
is the British equivalent slang of "stool pigeon".)
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25991
Bob Dog
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Yahoo grassed up journalist to Chinese cops
Reporters without Borders slams search outfit
By Nick Farrell: Wednesday 07 September 2005, 06:45
SEARCH OUTFIT Yahoo! has helped send a Chinese business
journalist, who sent a 'pro-democracy' story to the foreign
press, to jail for more than 10 years.
According to Reporters without Borders, Shi Tao, who worked for
Contemporary Business News, was convicted in a case concerning
"top secret level state secrets" because Yahoo Holdings
supplied information that helped police track him down.
Shi supplied information to foreign news sites about then
pending 15th anniversary of China's 1989 crackdown on pro-
democracy activists.
Journalists in that country had been told not to mention 1989
and pretend that it didn't happen, if they knew what was good
for them.
Rather than sitting on a good story, Tao gave it to the foreign
press. The Chinese government considered the 1989 crackdown a
state secret, and so Shi Tao was arrested for spying.
RWB thinks that it is the first time that a foreign company has
helped Beijing provide evidence for a conviction in such a case.
Yahoo is only allowed to operate in China if it helps Beijing
censor information and keep a firm limit on freedom of speech.
L'INQ
Reporters without Borders
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=14884
See Also
Cisco criticised for dealing with Chinese state police
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25859
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