Yahoo gets a much-deserved tongue-lashing
01:36, 7 November 2007
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"While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies," said House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, D-Calif., yesterday to Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang and General Counsel Michael Callahan, regarding their company's involvement in the jailing of a Chinese journalist and their defense for their cooperation with the Chinese government to identify and silence dissenters. Journalist Shi Tao was sent to jail for 10 years for engaging in pro-democracy efforts deemed subversive after Yahoo turned over information about his online activities requested by the Chinese authorities in 2004. Read the latest on Yahoo! (oh, the irony...).
