Rep. C. Smith sees "parallel" between Yahoo executives and Nazi enablers..

we need to pass a law against activity of this kind by American based corporations. I won't hold my breath though. These two are scum suckers!

Yahoo founder Jerry Yang is worth about $2.2 billion, according to Forbes magazine. The Internet giant's general counsel, Michael Callahan, received cash and stock options worth about $10 million last year.

Yesterday, the pair came before Congress to explain why they had paid not one penny to help the family of an innocent Chinese journalist Yahoo had turned over to Beijing's thought police to serve a decade in prison

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"While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies," Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the corporate titans.

Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-N.J.) said he saw a "parallel" between Yahoo and companies that helped the Nazis locate Jews to be sent to concentration camps.

"It is repugnant," Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) told the executives. "It would be funny if it weren't so sickening."

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Yang fared no better on his corporate citizenship test. "Yahoo collaborated with the Chinese police apparatus in the imprisonment of a freedom-loving Chinese journalist. Do you agree?" Lantos asked.

"Mr. Chairman, I understand where you're coming from," the laconic billionaire answered.

Lantos was just beginning. "Mr. Yang, why is it that after craven cooperation with the Chinese state security apparatus, the provision of false information to Congress, the failure to correct the record . . . the only person punished is an innocent journalist?"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/06/AR2007110602199_2.html?sid=ST2007110602679

They got the shit slapped out of them. Too bad that's where it stopped. Moral pygmies is right.

we should have zero tolerance for selling out human rights in favor of profits.

Aren't nearly all Americans who shop big box retailers guilty of "selling out human rights" in favor of profits and cheap consumer goods?

all patrons of yahoo are a party to this.

This morning as I was reading this, the first thought that came to my mind was 'How is this different from America and the phone companies'. The government went to yahoo with a subpoena and they handed over the info. This is exactly what we are doing with our phone companies and then we have the gall to jump all over them because it was China and not America that they were complying with. Yes, it was wrong. I realize we're not communists and we are supposed to be a democratic, free nation but that seems to be changing to me. We need to deal with the violations over here too.

Not only phone records here, also internet
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2226288

these corporations will clearly choose the path of least resistance, regardless of the moral or ethical repercussions. Yet these same corporations should be able to "police" themselves according to the repubs.