Comments on: Yahoo settles lawsuit with jailed Chinese journalists

Settlement comes one week after U.S. Representatives tell Yahoo's Yang to settle the suit filed by journalists after Yahoo provided information to Chinese government.

[Pascoli]

AT&T you're next

I guess the US Congress will have some balls to go after ATT next, for divulging american citizens information to the US government, and breaking US law in doing so. Instead, they're discussing whether to give them immunity for their unlawful behavior.
Their punishing yahoo for obeying chineese law, with yahoo doing business in China. Should China now start punishing Companies violating their law here in the USA, even if what those companies do here in the states is perfectly legal?

[Ushiikun]

What's next?

There is now a a precedence that shows that U.S. law takes precedence over foreign law, even in the foreign country. I think I'm going to sue some companies, on behalf of their workers, for not paying their employees the U.S. minimum wage.

[volterwd]

So um...

did they actually leak the secrets? This seems to be glossed over... it's nice to pretend as if they are righeous freedom fighters but not all people are.

[paulej]

Did Yahoo Have a Choice?

If Yahoo refused to comply, then perhaps they would have been refused to conduct business in China. That could very well kill their business.

I can appreciate the seriousness of this issue, but when you're in a foreign country conducting business, you are obligated to follow the laws and demands of that country. So, I cannot blame Yahoo for doing anything wrong, really.

And what of the US? There were on-line gambling sites operating over the Internet and *outside* the borders of the US-- publicly traded companies in the UK! -- and the US arrested their executives! Why? Individual states in the US feel like you are obligated to follow the laws of their states, even if you are far, far away...

We are living in some strange times.

[mikeburek]

I wish

I wish the same law makers who are so worried about the Chinese privacy issues would also defend American privacy. Remember when the big search engines were asked for their search data? Where were the law makers fighting for the American people then? What about all the back doors the gov't wanted for VOIP, or the information the gov't asks ISP for? It sure isn't the lawmakers fighting for American privacy. It's the American people who have to defend the Constitution and Bill of Rights since it seems we are just food for the American law makers.

I will have to let my vote speak, and get others to do the same.

[Stating]

Crybabies

China is a Communist totalitarian imperialistic state. Get over it. If Congress does not like China's SOP then they should immediately prevent all U.S. companies from doing business with China. And Congress should stop accepting political donations -- hard AND soft money, from China, and Chinese foreign agents. Yeah, like that will ever happen.

[inachu]

Lockdown in China is sometimes good.

I met a newly minted so called chinese christian the other day and asked her how do you know you are saved? She repliad that she could feel it.
She then expanded saying that it felt like a tingle in her right arm.

Comming from a atheist country to being drowned into religion when you arrive in USA having people banging on your door asking if you are saved when the basic idea of being saved is so vastly misunderstood then yes having religious lockdown is a safe thing. Speaking out against crackdowns in general may seem like a good thing but when you meet people such as I have then crackdowns are not all that bad to protect their citizens from cults and so forth.

Chinese branded religion is also a bad thing and so is handing information over sending an innocent to jail perhaps forever.