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Yahoo Helps Jail Chinese Writer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the submitted-over-and-over-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Internet giant Yahoo has been accused of supplying information to China which led to the jailing of journalist Shi Tao for "divulging state secrets". "

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  1. Is this the new definition of by ackthpt · · Score: 2, Funny
    Is this the new definition of Yahooligans?

    Tune in, turn in, drop out of sight...

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  2. The motive by L.+VeGas · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yahoo was probably just mad at him for creating too many Yahoo email accounts.

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  3. I don't believe it! by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny

    An enormous multinational corporation with no sense of morality?

    Inconceivable.

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    1. Re:I don't believe it! by 'nother+poster · · Score: 4, Funny

      You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. :)

  4. Yahoo could get sued... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...for violating Amazon's One-Click Snitch patent.

  5. Blame the US by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Please, you have to remember the current meme.

    The US is always to blame.
    China may be a represive communist country, but ... they are not the US. So, anytime we have a choice of who to blame, we blame the US.

    Yahoo is a US company. Therefore, we can blame the US by blaming them.

    China is blameles sin this and most instances. After all they are repressed by those evil white men.

    You have to understand, right & wrong are no longer based upon WHAT you DO, but instead on WHO (or what demographic) you below to.

  6. Re:Let's invade by m50d · · Score: 3, Funny
    Depends on how narrowly you define murder, but the current Chinese regime has taken decisions that have killed hundreds of thousands. The flooding caused by ill advised dam projects, lack of even basic safety standards in major industries (particularily mining) and the low standard of healthcare despite a vast budget for military expenditure are examples of that.

    How does that compare to a country that diverted money away from flood defences to the military, leading to thousands of deaths, and doesn't have a national health service despite having the largest economy and greatest military spending in the world?

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  7. Re:What about the "Patriot Act" by /dev/trash · · Score: 2, Funny

    The patriot Act is to catch terrorists.