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Yahoo May Be Facing Suit Over Chinese Journalist

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-something-to-yodel-about dept.

WindBourne wrote to mention a story covered by Forbes, detailing a possible suit against Yahoo! as a result of their involvement in a Chinese Journalist's jailing. From the article: "Zhang Yu, representing the family of Shi Tao, said they were considering taking Yahoo Hong Kong Holdings to court either here or in the United States. 'We believe what (Yahoo) did was illegal so we are considering taking Yahoo to court,' Zhang told reporters, adding that Yahoo had refused to discuss the matter with him. "

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  1. Weird! by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 1, Interesting

    considering taking Yahoo Hong Kong Holdings to court either here or in the United States.

    Yahoo (along with IBM, cisco, MS, google, etc) are behaving badly in China - but WTF? Why in a US court?

    Makes no sense

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    1. Re:Weird! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It makes complete sense. Yahoo! is a US company, and as such is, or ought to be, bound by US law, under which the lawsuit is more likely to get a fair trial. Rather than China, where dissidents are treated in various ways, including (but not limited to) being run over with tanks. At least when the US government wants to jail dissidents without trial, it creates jails outside of the US to confine them in so that it can claim that it's actions aren't bound by US law... hmm, on second thought, you may be right, maybe they haven't thought this through.

  2. What if by Bob3141592 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What if China only asked to see all of Yahoo's data so it could study how people looked at poolitically and sexually subversive sites in order to develop specifications for future filtering laws, and China then used that info to arrest dissidents. Could they still be sued for complying with China's laws?

    It'd make for an interesting precedent either way, wouldn't it?

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  3. Human Rights is a good idea in theory... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    ...but it won't make your T-Shirts or DVD Players any cheaper. Come on people! get off this and go to Wal-Mart and buy some Chinese made stuff. We can look away from the child labor and the insanely oppressive working conditions, can't we?

    Yahoo is just playing ball. Why don't you?

    Don't rock the boat or you just might have to buy a product made by Americans (Real ones, from America(TM))

  4. Yahoo does the same thing in the west by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Just a few weeks ago they turned over an american who was storing some illegal images in his yahoo online storage. Yahoo killed ASE too. Death to yahoo!