Is it true that Yahoo Inc. informed on journalists in China, causing them to face long term prison sentences?
103548
From the BBC news site:\n\nMedia watchdog Reporters Without Borders has accused Yahoo of providing China with information that helped to identify and convict two internet writers. \n\nLi Zhi was jailed for eight years in 2003, after posting comments that criticised official corruption. Writer Shi Tao was sentenced to 10 years in prison in April  2005 after criticising human rights abuses.
199457
Everything about the Internet company Yahoo! screams fun – from the name itself to the bright purple colors, to the endless array of online services and distractions. Around the world they are associated with creativity, innovation and the free flow of ideas.\nI think that’s why it is so shocking to learn that Yahoo! has colluded with the repressive Chinese government to help identify Internet dissidents who were subsequently thrown in jail.\nI urge you to join me today by expressing outrage at Yahoo!’s participation in human rights abuses in China.\nThe details are shocking. Investigations by Amnesty International and others show that:\n• At the Chinese government’s request Yahoo! routinely censors search engine results \nin China -- without disclosing that the censorship has happened.\n• Yahoo!-disclosed private user information has allegedly been used to persecute at\nleast three political dissidents in China.\n• In one case, that of journalist Shi Tao, information turned over by Yahoo! was \nsubmitted as evidence in a trial that ended in a 10-year prison sentence. A primary\npiece of evidence was a private email Mr. Shi sent to the United States from\nhis Yahoo! email account.\nWe don’t really know how many voices have been silenced through Yahoo!’s collusion, or how many people have been rounded up. What we do know, and why we need your help, is that Yahoo! cannot hide behind the supposed realpolitik of working in China.\nRecent examinations of four American Internet technology companies operating in China– Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, and Cisco -- suggest that Yahoo! has most actively aided repressive forces in China, by helping to jail political dissidents.\nNew York Times columnist and consistent voice for human rights Nicholas Kristof concludes “Yahoo! sold its soul and is a national disgrace.”\nYahoo! is not immune to public condemnation. Your demands for change will get the Internet giant’s attention.\nAmnesty demands that Yahoo! use its influence to secure prisoner of conscience Shi Tao's release and to stop any actions that could undermine human rights in any country in which it operates.\nEvery voice makes a difference. Please take action today.\nThanks for all you do.\nSincerely,\nBill Schulz\n\nExecutive Director
619567
No. Yahoo has been having a few issues as of late. It happened in a few groups I use that are not political in nature.\nBTW It's Martial Law.
17175
No, i don't think so.\n\nHowever, I am sure that they read all questions (and answers) posted under "Yahoo Products" category. I read this in one of the answers given by the yahoo! Answers team. They normally reply when a question has not been answered at all or no correct answers have been provided. \n\nFor other categories, users themselves do the censoring work by using the "Report Abuse" facility.
127264
See, I think you are onto something here. I've been trying to figure out what this is all about. Why would Yahoo waste their time, energy, and money on this, when they aren't getting anything out of it? I mean, I would expect to at least see some ads, sponsers, links, etc.\n\nThere is a conspiracy here somewhere...
59930
Wired News Report \n2002-07-02 02:15:00.0 \n\nThe collapse of the Internet bubble claimed its latest victim when Ziff Davis Media said it was closing down Yahoo Internet Life magazine. \n\nThe magazine had a fairly large circulation of 1.1 million, according to the most recent figures compiled by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, but its advertising has plummeted. \n\n\nThe magazine's paid advertising pages, a key measure of a magazine's health, were off 52 percent in the year to date through May, according to the Publishers Information Bureau. \n\nIn a note to employees, Ziff Davis Media CEO Bob Callahan said the magazine "did not generate enough marketplace support" following the end of the Internet bubble and technology market declines.
253944
There was on online article about just this!\n\nI think it is just journalists trying to make up fluff.
31388
The website yahoo.com was founded by \nDavid Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1994.\nPresent Chairman, CEO, Director is Terry Samel.\n\nHope i have addressed to ur Q.
599032
Yes. China and North Korea both have huge work camps for political prisoners.\n\n\npeace
130752
They do not allow free discussion of its people.  They are concerned that the democratic movement would use the internet to create widespread interrest in democracy and challenge their control of the Chinese people.\n\nAny companies that operate in China is subject to its laws.  Google and Yahoo are operating in China and is being forced to follow its restrictive laws.
528232
Its true.  Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft all support Communist China.  You would think that Businesses that have prospered becuase of the nation they were founded, and the freedoms they had in developing they're services, would at least not support communistic ideals but you can tell from all the news stories over the past month or two that, they all do in fact agree, support and abide by the Communist Ideology in China, all for Money.\n\nCapitalism at its best!\n\nWouldn't it be funny if Yahoo deleted this question?  LOL
514062
Most of them don't know about it.  It is never mentioned on the news or in text books.  Censorship is alive and well in China.\n (I had a friend who was studying in China at the time it happened, when he got home about six weeks later and I asked him about it - he hadn't even heard of it).
522508
You pay yahoo to do this!
948693
No, not unless they actually investigate the reports to see which ones are unfounded and which ones are legit. I've been reporting, I think one guy, who's been impersonating at least three or four people. How would Yahoo know anything about it unless someone tells them? With your way, even the person being impersonated would lose points for reporting it. Stuff like that shouldn't happen. If Yahoo investigated these reports, there wouldn't be a problem, so we wouldn't need a plan. The whole reason reporting gets out of hand is because the offenders know Yahoo isn't investigating reports, so they can get away with it.
190096
I didn't know Yahoo did it.  I know Google did it.  I don't approve, but I understand.  It was the only way they could get the Chinese business, and we can't influence anything over there if we have no presence over there, even if it is censored for now.  Chinese hackers will be smart enough to find the information and get it out to the people.
633453
I heard about this! This is the info I got. Yahoo (among other companies) are providing information about user website patterns and e-mail accounts in exchange for the Chinese government allowing them to operate there. From what I understand, other e-mail server, such as hotmail were given the same opportunity and declined.
1146320
Not only that, Yahoo also helped the Chinese government to crack down on opposition bloggers, and actively helps China to censor the web. (searchs on words like "democracy", "human rights" and "tianmenn square massacre" are filtered and/or simply not allowed).\n\nIt shows you how these corporations don't really care about democracy, freedom of speech, or any kind of ethics but just about their private profits and interests.\nThe saddest part is that most "common people" just don't care to learn about or exercise their rights. Most people don't even know or care about things like the CIA COINTELPRO program, the Echelon System (a global communication-monitoring system that both Australia, the US and the European Union have admitted as real), the Northwoods operation, etc, etc.\nAs always, people realize that they are being screwed up and decide to react only when it's too late.