[IP] Yahoo, MSN helping Chinese crack down on dissidents

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Rich Kulawiec [rsk@gsp.org]
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 11:16 AM
To: David Farber; Richard Forno; Fergie
Subject: Yahoo, MSN helping Chinese crack down on dissidents

This has shown up any number of places, for instance:

        http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20080321-yahoo-msn-used-root-out-tibetan-rioters-china
        Yahoo and MSN helping to root out Tibetan rioters

which reads in part:

        Yahoo China pasted a "most wanted" poster across its homepage
        today in aid of the police's witch-hunt for 24 Tibetans accused
        of taking part in the recent riots. MSN China made the same
        move, although it didn't go as far as publishing the list on
        its homepage.

The correct response from Yahoo or MSN (or anyone else) when
asked for cooperation in this endeavor is, of course, "pound sand".
What a pity that these corporations lack the courage to give it.

---Rsk

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