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Congressional Commitee Rips Yahoo Execs
A number of readers sent word of the hearing by the US House Foreign Affairs Committee in which committee members raked two Yahoo execs over the coals. "While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies," the committee chairman Tom Lantos, D-Calif., said angrily after hearing from Jerry Yang and Michael Callahan about Yahoo's actions that resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of a Chinese dissident. In 2004 Yahoo turned over information about journalist Shi Tao's online activities requested by Chinese authorities. In Feb. 2006, Yahoo's General Counsel Callahan testified that he had not known the nature of the investigation the authorities were conducting. He later learned that several employees of Yahoo China were aware at the time that the investigation involved "state secrets," but Callahan did not go back to Congress to amend his testimony. Committee members were withering in their disdain for Yahoo's refusal to help Shi Tao's family after his arrest.
No, it's more like the howitzer calling the derringer a gun.
All the techniques ever used to make men moral have been themselves thoroughly immoral... (Nietzsche)
What happens in China, stays in China?
He should know the only time the word "douchebags" is acceptable on
(Note that in some instances this may also work with the term "RIAA")
The original generic sig.
What's Yahoo supposed to do when faced with a subpoena from the Chinese Government?
dunno - wait it out and see if they come back an hour later?
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Step 1. Yahoo refuses to cooperate w/Chinese authorities.
Step 2. Yahoo get blocked by the Great Firewall of China Step 3. ???? Step 4. No Profit from advertisements.
If Tom Lantos' morals turned to gasoline, there wouldn't be enough of it to power a piss-ant's go-cart around the inside of a Cheerio.
Greg Raven
As long as there's any left, I'll take mine first.
I don't know about you, but my pot's green and my kettle is chrome...
Yeah, the little bitty Derringer. What could it possibly do?
What?
Yeah, but I hear if you drop a Lantos into Diet Coke, it foams furiously.
Don't worry. Give us two more decades in the US and we'll be as free as China.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
Step 1: Congress makes it illegal to filter political content, or for any US corporation to aid in political sensorship except content relating to the US government
There fixed it for you.
censorship There, fixed it for you.
It goes: If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 billion, that's the bank's problem. --J. Paul Getty