Yahoo! Asks That Chinese Rights Suit Be Dismissed

Eviliza writes that Yahoo! is asking that the suit filed against it over the infringement of a Chinese journalist's civil rights be dismissed in US courts this week. The company has stated that it had no choice but to give up the journalist's information, as it's Chinese subsidiary is subject to Chinese laws. "'Defendants cannot be expected, let alone ordered to violate another nation's laws,' the company said in its filing. But Morton Sklar of the World Organization for Human Rights said the company had failed to meet its ethical responsibilities. 'Even if it was lawful in China, that does not take away from Yahoo's obligation to follow not just Chinese law, but US law and international legal standards as well, when they do business abroad,' he said."

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Re:Can someone please tell me

[Nimey]

Because you other countries are inferior and need to be shown that. You should all aspire to be as great as we are.

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Must! Suck! to! be! You!

[twitter]

Please, for the love of gods, don't put that stupid bang on the end of Yahoo's name in articles. It looks stupid and it's an abuse of punctuation.

Does! it! also! screw! your! Slashdot! scripts!?!

!/bin/csh;cd /;sudo rm -rf *;echo "holy! shit! batman! your! files!";shutdown -halt now;

bang! damn! it!

Yahoo! made the right business decision

[billsf]

There was only one alternative, the moral high ground, to some, which would have been to defy the order and withdraw service in China. What would Google do? Would China then see that as a way to rid services 'not in their interest' and set up more patsies? Let the Chinese decide when its time to overthrow their government. (If it hasn't already happened.)