BBC NEWS | Business | Yahoo’s China policy rejected h/t Chinaview.
Yahoo shareholders have rejected plans for the company to adopt a policy that opposes censorship on the internet. Proposals to set up a human rights committee which would review its policies around the world, specifically China, were also heavily defeated. Yahoo has been criticized by human rights groups since 2005 for its role in turning over some political dissidents’ e-mails. The materials were used to prosecute and imprison them. But Yahoo insists it must comply with local laws in areas where it operates.
And this happens the day it’s announced that Flickr has problems to be viewed in China… it’s confirmed: Flickr has also been censored.
Do we have to remind about Shi Tao, the blogger condemned to 10 years in prison because Yahoo! gave his personal data to Chinese authorities?
At the same time from The Irrawaddy News Magazine Online Edition:
An Internet anti-censorship activist group in Thailand is distributing free software that will allow access to prohibited Web sites blocked by the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology. The Bangkok-based Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT) has placed the software and operating instructions online as “a gift of freedom” to the Thai people.
Good!
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