Yahoo Execs Defend Role in China Arrest

Source: Associated Press

Yahoo Execs Defend Role in China Arrest

Tuesday November 6, 2007 4:46 PM

By ERICA WERNER

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two top Yahoo Inc. officials on
Tuesday defended their company's role in the jailing of
a Chinese journalist but ran into withering congressional
criticism over information Yahoo gave the Chinese
government about the man's online activities.

“Yahoo claims that this is just one big misunderstanding.
Let me be clear - this was no misunderstanding,” House
Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, D-Calif.,
said as his panel's hearing got under way. “This was
inexcusably negligent behavior at best, and deliberately
deceptive behavior at worst.”

He angrily urged Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang and
General Counsel Michael Callahan to apologize to journalist
Shi Tao's mother, who was sitting directly behind them.

Shi Tao was sent to jail for 10 years for engaging in pro-
democracy efforts deemed subversive after Yahoo turned
over information about his online activities requested by
the communist government.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7054514,00.html

how horrible! like the guy said, he might not like the law but its the law.

They should have refused and just pulled the plug on China. No more Yahoo.

The internet would have been great for them.

Just because a country has a law doesn't make the law moral. If a company has to throw morality out the window to do business in a country, perhaps it's too high of a price to do business there.

And if the law here suddenly were changed and we were required to report any "subversive activity" we should all be good Germans?

I find your post in curious contrast to your sig line.

"Shi Tao was sent to jail for 10 years for engaging in pro-
democracy efforts deemed subversive after Yahoo turned
over information about his online activities requested by
the communist government."

I thought that's what Bush and the Republicans want people everywhere to do. Become pro-democracy. Of course Bush is doing the opposite in Iraq - engaging in subversive efforts guised as being "pro-democracy.

Just the same you would think Bush would have protested all of this or at least had Pickles protest it. But then Daddy is making too much money off the Chinese. We all know Bush wants to make Daddy happy. He even killed Saddam Hussein for Daddy. "That man tried to kill my Daddy." That one comment sums up the Bushes better than anything.

Congress should demand prosecution of the Yahoo executives. Which is about as likely as Congress impeaching, convicting, and removing Bush and turning him over to the International Court for prosecution of war crimes. Along with Daddy.

What a shameful country we have become.

He doesn't give a fuck for Democracy

It it a phrase he uses to mislead the sheep

are oppressing people, webbing all their suspects on the internets w/ money from Amurka!
Oh fucking happy day.
:thumbsdown:

Is it too much to ask American companies to behave like good Americans? Our standards are higher, we shouldn't lower them when we go to other countries. If, for example, torture were legal in another country, do good Americans go their to knock a few heads together. Oh yeah, right we do, rendition.

I just deleted my Yahoo account. I know it's no big deal, but I can't patronize a company that is as underhanded as Yahoo. They've proven to me time and time again that they are anti-free speech and have NO respect for privacy.

Their actions deserve no respect.

Rhetorical question; I'm not holding my breath for an answer. :banghead: