itw with the brother of Li Zhi, a Chinese pro-democratic

A Reporters Without Borders team stationed itself with a video player outside Yahoo !'s California headquarters on 7 April 2006 and stopped employees as they left the building, offering to show them videos filmed in China of people criticising Yahoo !'s cooperation with the Chinese police.

The video consist of interview with the brother of Li Zhi, a Chinese pro-democracy activist who was arrested on information provided by Yahoo !

Li's brother criticises Yahoo !'s role in Li's conviction. "Li is in prison because of you," he says. "He already had hepatitis and now he has pleurisy because the poor working conditions in prison (...) Our family is broken (...) I am convinced he is innocent (...) All this happened because of your company (...) and I hope that in future you will heed your conscience before doing this kind of thing."

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• rsf
• yahoo
• deal
• china
• chinese
• email
• arrest
• pro-democratic
• democracy

[cedrik2003]

Fuck Yahoo, I BOYCOTT those fuckers, everyone should do the same. Shame on them!

[mikebostonjones]

Jerry Yang(yahoo's founder who is Tawanese), you've broken my heart.

[kuaran]

When I saw the TV document about how Yahoo! helped in suppressing free speech and putting innocent people into jail, I was really disappointed with this Internet giant! Maybe I must stop to use Yahoo's e-mail and messenger.

This picture is not black and white, but cases like these (incl. Microsoft etc.) are certainly worth wide civic discussion, and maybe some form of consumer activism for freedom and democracy is needed too.

[kuaran]

When I saw the TV document about how Yahoo! helped in suppressing free speech and putting innocent people into jail, I was really disappointed with this Internet giant. Maybe I must stop to use Yahoo's e-mail and messenger and other services.

This picture is certainly not black and white, but cases like these (incl. Microsoft etc.) are certainly worth wide civic discussion, and maybe some form of consumer activism for freedom and democracy is needed too.

[kuaran]

None of the big companies are innocent, I guess, but the case of Yahoo! looks very ugly. Thomas Joscelyn wrote in his article entitled 'Yahoo! Aiding Chinese Government?': "Google, unlike Microsoft and Yahoo!, has stopped short of hosting its mail servers in China." I wonder if Google really showed some social responsibility by its move.

[barkerer]

hes been reading a script

[Alias1983]

I won't use my yahoo email anymore. I'm switching to hotmail. And don't use google or gmail either.

[mcperson26]

i don't know how those at yahoo responsible for this can sleep at night