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Yahoo Sued for Giving User Information to China
taoman1 wrote with news of a CNN article about a suit brought against Yahoo! for alleged aiding in human rights violations. The World Organization for Human Rights USA has filed suit against the search company for (so the suit claims) assisting in torture by revealing information that led to the arrest of dissidents. "The lawsuit cites federal laws that govern torture and other violations of international law. Plaintiffs included jailed dissident Wang Xiaoning and his wife, Yu Ling, who was visiting San Francisco this week as part of the group's campaign. Sklar said he knew of three other cases, but the dissidents were reluctant to join the complaint for fear of harm to their families living in China. Among those three dissidents is journalist Shi Tao, who was sentenced in 2005 to 10 years in jail."
ooh the dilemma for the republican dominated courts!
on the one hand we have their track record for unwavering support for multinationals.
on the other we have their professed villification of terrorists and human rights abusers.
I can just picture their heads exploding right now! (especially souter's!)
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The US gov't deals favorably with CHina every day
other US corporations manufacture their goods in China every day
US citizens buy the products made in China every day
every day we empower china with our $$$ and our looking away...
Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
don't want to feeL you aal is to let
This should be an episode.
O.K., children, Yahoo! is evil, mmmmKay?
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