http://www.baltimoregroupblog.com/2006/04/19/yahoo-helps-jail-yet-another-chinese-cyber-dissident/ Writers, hence dissidents Sat, 5 Jul 2008 11:21:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://www.baltimoregroupblog.com/2006/04/19/yahoo-helps-jail-yet-another-chinese-cyber-dissident/#comment-200876 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:36:01 +0000 http://www.baltimoregroupblog.com/2006/04/19/yahoo-helps-jail-yet-another-chinese-cyber-dissident/#comment-200876 [...] Yahoo and MSN have a long and troubled history when it comes to respecting human rights in China. Both outlets, though Yahoo more prominently, have handed over private user data and emails to help China persecute cyber dissidents. Yahoo has given managerial control of Yahoo! China to Alibaba, a Chinese internet company, who evidently has far lower consideration for human rights and privacy than an American company like Yahoo! But the key distinction is that in a situation where Yahoo Inc could have had strong protections for Chinese users and high standards for content created in China, they refused the power in lieu of a set up that allows the Chinese government to use Yahoo! China as an extension of their police state. [...] […] Yahoo and MSN have a long and troubled history when it comes to respecting human rights in China. Both outlets, though Yahoo more prominently, have handed over private user data and emails to help China persecute cyber dissidents. Yahoo has given managerial control of Yahoo! China to Alibaba, a Chinese internet company, who evidently has far lower consideration for human rights and privacy than an American company like Yahoo! But the key distinction is that in a situation where Yahoo Inc could have had strong protections for Chinese users and high standards for content created in China, they refused the power in lieu of a set up that allows the Chinese government to use Yahoo! China as an extension of their police state. […]

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