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7 Sep 2005

Author:
Rebecca MacKinnon, fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, on RConversation weblog

Yahoo! helps Chinese cops

Chinese Journalist Shi Tao was arrested for "divulging state secrets abroad" thanks to Yahoo!'s help...Media reports quote a Yahoo! spokesperson who only says that the company is "looking into it."... [The] Yahoo! Terms of Service...make it clear that Yahoo! does not intend to protect people's communications from their governments... If you are worried about getting in trouble, do not use...any...[online] service whose parent company has a business presence in China. [also refers to Google, Microsoft, Hushmail]

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