Chinese Political Prisoner Sues in U.S. Court, Saying Yahoo Helped Identify Dissidents
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Chinese Political Prisoner Sues in U.S. Court, Saying Yahoo Helped Identify Dissidents: “The company is accused of abetting the commission of torture by helping Chinese authorities identify political dissidents who were later beaten and imprisoned.”
The fact that Cisco, Microsoft, and others have complied already as a cost of doing business in China is no excuse. Yahoo seems to have gone out of their way to help the Chinese government prosecute this man.
If we’re going to frown on US companies doing business with Iran and North Korea, I would think that we ought not hold China to a different standard just because it’s such a lucrative market.
(Source NYT > Business.)
