Yahoo Insists It Did Not Assist Blogger Torture
This post was published 2 years 2 months 26 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Nothing makes a better headline line then a major company and the word torture near it. Yahoo is actually standing accused of knowingly “aiding and abetting” torture of Chinese blogging dissidents.
The search company said yesterday that the legal action was “a political case challenging the Chinese Government” which had no place in the US courts. It said that it had merely been obeying the law when it gave Chinese authorities the registration information of a user who had promoted democracy in a forum.
The company was responding to a lawsuit filed in April by the wife of Wang Xiaoning, a writer with a Yahoo! e-mail account who was jailed for ten years in 2003 after he was found guilty by a Chinese court of “incitement to subvert state power.”
Yahoo! was referred to ten times in the court’s verdict, and the company has acknowledged handing over information – including to the content of e-mails sent by Mr Wang – when requested to do so.
Now, I’m tired of this political mess. China, which is a recognized flagrant human rights violator, is slowly and strategically purchasing, gaining control and influencing strategic US assets – and we are FINE with it. I think it is time for people to closely analyze what is happening in the global economy and hold some accountability to corporations who deal with counties that do not hesitate to harm its population for a profit.
yea it’s weird isn’t it… we attack Iraq because Saddam was a monster right?…. but in China they are torturing and putting people in jail for messages on an internet forum… and we still don’t say anything because they make 90% of our shit.
we should def. go cold war style on them and just freeze trade, sure it would be a hell of an economical situation being that the prices of damn near everything would go up… but it would in the long run help our economy, or hell we could just move shit to India if it’s that big of a hit. They are programming and such for dirt cheap I’m sure they’d work in a factory just the same.
I would rather see it brought home to the US personally… but I doubt Nike shares my views.
Chad, if the US tried to impose any sanctions on China the US would be quickly put in a recession, and a possible depression. China controls a very large chunk of US’ national debt, and they have expressed clear intentions of manipulating that leverage if the US tries anything. Granted that the US eats a lot of China’s exports and cutting off trade to them would hurt China’s economy massively, what would the US do without those exports?
Other than that, the US seems to be having trouble with Iraq… how well do you think they would fare against China