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RConversation: Yahoo! e-mail in China: must be evil to be legal
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September 09, 2005
Yahoo! e-mail in China: must be evil to be legal
New developments in the furor over how Yahoo! helped convict a dissident Chinese journalist :
ESWN (scroll down to bottom) and Angry Chinese Blogger have both posted translations of the summary of an internal Chinese Communist Party Propaganda Department circular, e-mailed by Chinese journalist Shi Tao to a foreign website via his Yahoo! China email account. ( Click here for the PDF of the full verdict text in both Chinese and English.) A lively discussion is going on in the comments section of my last post about Yahoo!'s role in Shi Tao's conviction .
According to Shi Tao's summary, the Propaganda Dept. circular includes the following instruction to Chinese editors and reporters: "pay attention to any liaison between overseas democratic elements and individual media editors and reporters inside China. If anything is discovered, it is must be
reported immediately"
For transmitting this, plus a very general list of measures the government was taking to crack down on dissident speech and prevent unrest, Shi Tao got 10 years in jail.
Yahoo! has now responded to Reporters Without Borders and other human rights groups who have strongly condemned Yahoo!'s role in handing over Shi Tao's e-mail logs to the Chinese police.
In an email to Reuters, a Yahoo! spokesperson wrote: "Just like any other global company, Yahoo! must ensure that its local
country sites must operate within the laws, regulations and customs of
the country in which they are based."
In Shi Tao's case, Yahoo! had to be evil in order to be legal.
But as the discussion on my last post reveals , Yahoo! had a c"
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