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Yahoo ordered to share reporter's e-mail [with the Chinese government--10 years in prison.]
Associated Press by way of Business Week ^ | 10SEP05 | ELAINE KURTENBACH

Posted on 09/10/2005 12:28:26 PM PDT by familyop

Yahoo had to comply with a demand by Chinese authorities to provide information about a personal e-mail of a journalist who was later convicted under state secrecy laws and sentenced to 10 years in prison, the company's co-founder Jerry Yang said Saturday. Yang, responding to questions during an Internet forum in this eastern Chinese resort city, said he could not discuss the details of the case involving Shi Tao, a former writer for the financial publication Contemporary Business News. Overseas-based human rights groups disclosed days earlier that Yahoo Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd., part of Yahoo's global network, provided e-mail account information that helped lead to Shi's conviction.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boycottyahoo; chicoms; china; commies; communism; communist; despotism; fascism; fascist; imprisoned; internet; journalist; proliferation; redchina; thereisnodissent; yahoo

1 posted on 09/10/2005 12:28:26 PM PDT by familyop
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To: familyop
Yahoo had to comply with a demand by Chinese authorities

or else what?

I'm thinking just now of a piece of scripture that talks unfavorably about those who buy and sell the souls of men.

2 posted on 09/10/2005 12:32:22 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (we don't need no stinkin' tagline.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Here's more information on the story.

Opinion: Yahoo Is Too Cozy With Chinese Regime [Re. imprisoned journalist]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1481889/posts


4 posted on 09/10/2005 12:34:11 PM PDT by familyop ("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
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To: familyop

Maybe the Attorney General can launch an inquiry of Yahoo for complicity with the Chinese Government in the violation of someone's "human rights."


5 posted on 09/10/2005 12:34:46 PM PDT by Enterprise (When Rats govern they screw up and people die. Then, the Rats want to punch the President.)
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To: Grengo en el Sol

6 posted on 09/10/2005 12:36:07 PM PDT by pageonetoo (You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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To: familyop

Maybe SBC Yahoo DSL subscribers might inquire about switching service to Cable DSL subscriptions.

See how SBC likes that. Maybe their partner, Yahoo, might discover a few choices in how they deal with tyrannical regimes.


7 posted on 09/10/2005 1:25:46 PM PDT by Racehorse (Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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To: familyop
Welcome to globalism to you greedy Rockafeller GOP elitists.

Anything for a buck until these communist bastards come for you.

8 posted on 09/10/2005 2:39:59 PM PDT by the irate magistrate
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