I hope it is wrong
I really hope that this report is wrong, I have a lot of sympathy to Yahoo and I like using its services. If it is true some people at Yahoo should ask themselves when they look in the mirror if it worth loosing their soul for few more dollars.
An email subpoena sent to Yahoo! China, which led Chinese authorities to sentence journalist Shi Tao to 10 years in prison for distributing information about the Tiananmen massacre, contradicts what a Yahoo executive told Congress.
The document requested identifying information on an email account used to send prohibited political information to a democracy group, saying the information was necessary to investigate a person suspected of "illegal provision of state secrets to foreign entities." However, Yahoo General Counsel Michael Callahan told Congress in 2006 that the company "had no information about the nature of the investigation" before it handed over account information to the police.
I am not concerned so much about the possible false testimony - I don’t think that the US congress has the right to question Yahoo activities abroad; nor does it have the moral justification while it require the same companies to do the same through the Patriot Act. What I found sad it the willingness of companies, and mostly of some executives, to sell their soul for good quarterly report.
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Rogel @ July 30, 2007