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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'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.
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.