Yahoo Helps Jail Chinese Writer

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". "

Comments

Wrong department

[nubnub]

"from the submitted-over-and-over-again dept." Shouldn't this be "from the stolen from the drudge report dept."?

Yet another blatent object of proof

[guildsolutions]

against comunisum.

People in the US a lot of times dont realize what these people in china have for rights. Most of the time, nothing.

Then again, you have the absurd in china too.

A CHINESE CITIZEN TRIES TO SMUGGLE 54 PENISES OF REINDEERS

The fact if smuggling subjects of animal origin has been registered by customs officials of the city of Blagoveschansk. According to spokesman of Far-Eastern Custom Office, during the luggage inspection of tourists departing to China, 54 penises of reindeer weighting 9,49 kg were found in bag of a Chinese woman.
Exporting parts of reindeer is permitted, though if there are special documents confirming they have been bought legally and certificates of vet services. But the Chinese citizen did not have such documents. Another Chinese citizen tried to smuggle 3,38 kg of pink radiola roots. The plant is included in the Red Book, so to export it is forbidden.
Statements of the cases about violating Custom Code have been drawn up.

Re:The Pro Google/Anti Yahoo stories continue

[garcia]

Google omits controversial news stories in China
17:36 21 September 2004
NewScientist.com news service
Will Knight

I realize that the Slashdot editors have recently posted duplicate content and even posted stories with linked articles from months ago but do any of us really care about an article posted nearly 1 year ago?

I don't.

Re:Let's invade

[Overly Critical Guy]

China didn't violate a UN treaty over ten times that specifically stated we could use force.

More important question

[Anonymous Coward]

How did the Chinese government even know what he was writing? ASCII doesn't have Chinese characters, and as far as I know, the Chinese characters or whatever don't even mean anything. It just looks like a bunch of scribble-scrabble. I've showed that stuff to all my friends and they can't read it either! I bet they just pretend that they're writing stuff down when we're watching, but use the Roman alphabet when they're actually trying to communicate. Seriously, who can actually read that jibberish? It looks like jflkdfibgoaie

Re:Let's invade

[Stephen Samuel]

I had to assume you were referring to Mao because the current Chinese regime has not murdered thousands of its own citizens, as the Iraqi regime did.

I've got to assume that you're talking about the current US Military regime, since you're trying to focus this on current regimes, not old regimes -- it's also accurate. Thousands of innocent civilians have died as a result of military action in Iraq since the US took over. "For their protection".

This goes along with torture and murder in the prisons (with the government claiming irresponsibility), skirting (if not outright violation) of the Geneva convention, .... etc. etc. etc.