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Yahoo Rejects Anti-Censorship Proposal

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the didn't-know-yahoo-was-still-even-in-business dept.

Matthew Skala writes "The BBC reports that Yahoo! has rejected a shareholder proposal to adopt an anti-censorship policy, as well as one to set up a human rights committee to review the impact of Yahoo!'s operations in places like China. The interesting proposals are numbers 6 and 7 in the proxy statement available through EDGAR. This news comes on the heels of jailed Chinese reporter Shi Tao, suing Yahoo! for its involvement in his conviction, and Google's rejection of a similar proposal. The anti-censorship proposal was submitted by the same groups (several New York City pension funds) as the Google proposal. The proxy statement also includes the Board's recommendations — "strongly oppose[ing]" both proposals — with explanations of their reasoning."

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  1. Shi Tao? or Shit Ao? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Strange name for this chinese dude

  2. Censorship is coming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Good for Yahoo. This is all about the First Amendment. Let's not follow the gov't down the path of censorship. After all, censorship is becoming America's favorite past-time. The US gov't (and their corporate friends), already detain protesters, ban books like "America Deceived" from Amazon and Wikipedia, shut down Imus and fire 21-year tenured, BYU physics professor Steven Jones because he proved explosives, thermite in particular, took down the WTC buildings. Free Speech forever (especially for the internet).
    Last link (before Stark County District Library caves to pressure and drops the title):
    America Deceived (book)