Yahoo’s Double Standard: France Vs. China

[mandy]

Yahoo has a double standard. A federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit by the Sunnyvale portal powerhouse, filed to try and keep a Paris court from enforcing a $15 million fine for displaying Nazi memorabilia for sale on Yahoo's auction site. This is a violation of French law and shows a different game than Yahoo dealing with China...

The other side of this is the nasty double standard Yahoo is demonstrating. While they seek help from the U.S. government to keep from having to follow France's laws, they are willing to out journalist-critics of the Chinese government in order to keep from irritating the Chinese government, stating they have to follow Chinese laws to do business in China. Huh? Why are they applying different standards to two different countries?

full article: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnew...China.html

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[mandy]

The internet giant Yahoo has been accused of providing China with information that led to the jailing of a second internet writer.

Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders claims that Yahoo released data which led to the arrest of Li Zhi.

The online writer was jailed for eight years in 2003, after posting comments that criticised official corruption.

full article:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4695718.stm

From Reporters Without Borders:

Reporters Without Borders called on Yahoo ! to supply a list of all cyberdissidents it has provided data on, beginning with 81 people in China whose release the worldwide press freedom organization is currently campaigning for.

It said it had discovered that Yahoo ! customer and cyberdissident Li Zhi had been given his eight-year prison sentence in December 2003 based on electronic records provided by Yahoo. “How many more cases are we going to find ?” it asked.

“We were sure the case of Shi Tao, who was jailed for 10 years last April on the basis of Yahoo-supplied data, was not the only one. Now we know Yahoo works regularly and efficiently with the Chinese police.

“The firm says it simply responds to requests from the authorities for data without ever knowing what it will be used for. But this argument no longer holds water. Yahoo certainly knew it was helping to arrest political dissidents and journalists, not just ordinary criminals. The company must answer for what it is doing at the US congressional hearing set for February 15.”

full article: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=16402