Source: MyWay.com
For the third time, Yahoo may have helped Chinese authorities identify and imprison internet writer Li Jiang, leader of a small group of Internet dissidents.
I guess democracy means nothing when chasing the dollar.
BEIJING (Reuters) -- Yahoo Inc. may have helped Chinese police to identify an Internet writer who was subsequently jailed for four years for subversion in the third such case, an advocacy group for journalists said on Wednesday.
News implicating Yahoo in the imprisonment of Jiang Lijun in 2003 surfaced on the eve of a summit between Chinese President Hu Jintao and President Bush in Washington.
It was the third such case involving the U.S. Internet giant.
Yahoo was accused of providing electronic records to Chinese authorities that led to an eight-year prison term for Li Zhi for subversion in 2003 and of helping to identify Shi Tao, who was accused of leaking state secrets abroad and jailed last year for 10 years.
The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said it had obtained a copy of the verdict showing that Yahoo! Holdings (Hong Kong) helped Chinese police to identify Jiang by confirming that the e-mail account ZYMZd2002 had been used jointly by Jiang and another pro-democracy activist Li Yibing.
Yahoo helping the Communist country of China oppress its people is poor corporate policy, and I hope Americans and those who believe in freedom across the world would shun Yahoo, and the services the company offers in protest.
Simply don't use what they offer and send the message home.
I will not support a company that openly supports a country which oppresses its people, stifles its peoples rights to free religion, and doesn't engage in free and open trade practices.
If you are going to aid an oppressive government, I'll take a pass on anything you have to offer, Yahoo.
Thanks, but no thanks.
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