Comments on: Group says Yahoo helped jail Chinese journalist

Reporters Without Borders charges the Internet giant with providing information that helped put a local writer in jail.

[itsnotyourbaby]

Correction

"Google and Yahoo are fighting in a Washington state court over the employment of Kai-Fu Lee, a former Microsoft employee who helped the software giant build up its Chinese offices."

It is not Google vs Yahoo.. it is Microsoft vs Google.

[stevenmusil]

Re: Correction

Thanks for noting the error. The article has been corrected.

[qazwiz]

Were they served with the Chinese equivalent to a Court Order?

Who wrote this article?

it appears so slanted it would make Tower of Pisa stand upright.

equating Yahoo's actions to a criminal informing on it's gang wholly distorts the likely goings on of the situation. China has no bill of rights and so refusing WOULD make them a criminal. There is no Miranda and when arrested you are assumed to be guilty... often with no way to introduce facts that would disprove it.

I am 99.999% sure they are acting legally and almost as sure that inaction would have gotten them in trouble in China.

Was it a secret? Does it make the accused a criminal??? He was arrested and so I refer you to two paragraphs previous.

Do I need to paraphrase the saying? When in China do as the Chinese do!!!

[Michael Grogan]

All that means...

...is that you, like Yahoo, have the ethics of a drunken lizard. Making money is hardly an excuse to help tyrants remain that way.

[Bizarro]

Yes it does!

Hiding behind the facade of "culture" is either racist or appalingly elitist. Human rights mean exactly that, the rights of all humans, wherever they may live and to say that they don't apply in China because of "culture" is absurd. I for one am sick and tired of being told that I don't "understand" another culture and therefore shouldn't be allowed to judge it when it locks up and abuses its citizens because they diagree with a minority ruling elite. What happened in China had nothing to do with culture and everything to do with an oppressive regime and a compliant company that valued it's business deals more than human rights. End of story.