Did Yahoo help jail a dissident in China?
According to this report, Yahoo may have collaborated with the Chinese government as they tracked down and jailed a dissident reporter. If true, I’ll be canceling all my accounts with Yahoo, including Flickr, IM, and group subscriptions. However, I’m reserving judgement until the mainstream media picks up the story and Yahoo has a chance to respond.
While I expect shaky ethics from multi-national corporations, this would be unforgivable.
BBC News - Yahoo ‘helped jail China writer’
(via Boing Boing, Slashdot, and many others)
September 7th, 2005
September 7th, 2005 at 8:06 pm
I heard about this too and had the same thought. I’ve had my yahoo email since like 1994… I’ll send them a letter when I cancel. I’ll need to find a flickr replacement. It’s become less functional since the yahoo takeover anyhow.
September 8th, 2005 at 2:30 pm
thanks for the support comrade, i dont know what i’d do without your activism
September 10th, 2005 at 3:31 pm
It looks like this is going to blow over for Yahoo. I’m ditching them anyway. Bye Flickr, I’ll miss you.