Yahoo! charged with helping Beijing suppress human rights – Asia News
The International Organisation for human rights has called web giant Yahoo! to court in the United States, guilty of having provided the Chinese government with information to trace and arrest journalists and dissidents.
The group — which has a long history of working to promote human rights world wide — has also asked a court in San Francisco to charge Yahoo! With complicity with Beijing in the abuse of civil rights and in acts of torture committed against arrested dissidents.
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The web giant responded to the charges stating that it was obliged to work in agreement with the laws of each single state in which the system is used, but admitted that collaboration with the Chinese government had led to arrests and arbitrary detentions.
Law-abiding Yahoo! — good for them.
Microsoft and Google get “honorable” mentions in the article as well.
I use all three of them. Extensively.
Should I divest myself of them?
(I don’t approve of some ways my taxes are used either.)
(Nor do I approve of some of the stuff Yoder Store, Sharis, Safeway, WalMart, and Pizza Hut sell.)