Yahoo Settles With Imprisoned Chinese Journalists

Terms of the deal are secret, but Yahoo has reached settlements with two Chinese journalists who were arrested based on information the company provided to the ruling Communist government. "[...] a source at Yahoo said the company has been 'working with the families, and we're working with them to provide them with financial, humanitarian and legal assistance.' Yahoo has also agreed to establish a global human rights fund to provide 'humanitarian relief' to support dissidents and their families. The source said that details still have to be worked out."

Comments

Re:no law, of any nation

[renegadesx]

True democracy has not been practiced in such a long time though. The current democratic model is so flawed it lets guys like Bush, Blair and Howard be elected.

Populations of large democratic nations are way to big for the ancient greek democratic model to work. I am not saying scrap democracy but the way it's carried out needs to be revised.

The current model still has too much emphesis on majority rule and allows for minorities to still be repressed. Anti-descrimination laws only go so far. A majority could rule in favor of theocracy and take away certain rights of everyone because its "not christain".

Sometimes a gullable mob is just as bad as a communist regime.