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Dissident jailed after Yahoo handed evidence to police

  • 12-02-2006 11:40am
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    boardy
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    From http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2033331,00.html
    THE American internet company Yahoo! provided evidence to Chinese police that enabled them to imprison one of its users, according to allegations that came to light yesterday.

    The disclosure marked the second time in months that the company had been accused of helping China to put someone in jail. Li Zhi, a civil servant, was imprisoned on charges of trying to subvert state power after he criticised corruption and tried to join the dissident China Democracy Party.

    It appears that this is not the first time that Yahoo has done this. A Chinese journalist was jailed for ten years last year on charges of leaking state secrets after Yahoo supplied Chinese police with his user information.

    Is it going to drive Internet users underground i.e. away from the mainstream Internet (by using spoofing, pseudonyms, peer-to-peer networks etc.) in order to protect their information?


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