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Yahoo Allegedly Sells Reporter Out to Chinese Authorities
truckaxle writes "Yahoo! has been accused, again, of providing information to Chinese authorities that resulted in the imprisonment of a Chinese journalist. Yahoo! apparently provided Chinese police with internet activity information in a case that resulted in the arrest of Li Zhi. His crime - trying to join the dissident China Democracy Party. Yahoo! says it simply responds to requests from the authorities and was just complying to local laws. A Reporters Without Borders post reported that 'Yahoo! certainly knew it was helping to arrest political dissidents and journalists, not just ordinary criminals'."
As much as everyone hates that woman, she's perfectly free to dissent all she likes. Nobody's arrested her for opposing the president, protesting outside his ranch, giving speeches calling for his impeachment, etc, etc. How far do you think she would have gotten in China?
So with that said, the reason she was arrested is because she was trespassing. Every country has trespass laws, and they're all fairly similar. If you enter onto private property without invitation, or after being invited are asked to leave and refuse, you are guilty of trespassing and upon conviction are liable to...yadda yadda yadda. The case for government property is similar, the only difference being that generaly you don't have to be invited to enter, however, any time you are asked to leave you do so or risk imprisonment. Little Miss Cindy had every opportunity to leave under her own power and continue her protest outside. Instead she chose to be a bitch about it. Fine, slap the cuffs on her and drag her away. Everyone involved was quite happy that she gave them a reason to arrest her; there would have been a lot of dissapointed SS guys if she'd walked out wilingly.