Weak Shit Yahoo...
Wired News Report 10:15 AM Jun, 02, 2006
The union representing journalists in Great Britain and Ireland called on its 40,000 members to boycott all Yahoo products and services to protest the internet company's reported actions in China.
The National Union of Journalists said it sent a letter on Friday to Dominique Vidal, Yahoo Europe's vice president, denouncing the company for allegedly providing information to Chinese authorities about journalists. The union also said it would stop using all Yahoo-operated services.
Yahoo has been cited in court decisions as supplying China's government with information to help them identify, prosecute and jail writers advocating democracy.
A Yahoo representative in San Francisco could not immediately be reached. Yahoo chairman and chief executive Terry Semel said last month the company had no choice but to comply with local laws and did not have the power to change Chinese policy. He added that he was seeking help from the U.S. government to urge China to allow more media freedom.
The company has been accused by the NUJ and other journalism groups of providing records that led to an eight-year prison term for Li Zhi for discussing pro-democracy issues in a web forum and of helping identify Shi Tao, who was sentenced to prison for 10 years for forwarding a government e-mail to the foreign press.
(from: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71057-0.html?tw=rss.index)
That's some serious bollocks.
The union representing journalists in Great Britain and Ireland called on its 40,000 members to boycott all Yahoo products and services to protest the internet company's reported actions in China.
The National Union of Journalists said it sent a letter on Friday to Dominique Vidal, Yahoo Europe's vice president, denouncing the company for allegedly providing information to Chinese authorities about journalists. The union also said it would stop using all Yahoo-operated services.
Yahoo has been cited in court decisions as supplying China's government with information to help them identify, prosecute and jail writers advocating democracy.
A Yahoo representative in San Francisco could not immediately be reached. Yahoo chairman and chief executive Terry Semel said last month the company had no choice but to comply with local laws and did not have the power to change Chinese policy. He added that he was seeking help from the U.S. government to urge China to allow more media freedom.
The company has been accused by the NUJ and other journalism groups of providing records that led to an eight-year prison term for Li Zhi for discussing pro-democracy issues in a web forum and of helping identify Shi Tao, who was sentenced to prison for 10 years for forwarding a government e-mail to the foreign press.
(from: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71057-0.html?tw=rss.index)
That's some serious bollocks.