Yahoo accused of misleading Congress about Chinese journalist

Source: CNN.COM

Yahoo misled Congress regarding information the Internet company gave to Chinese authorities about the journalist Shi Tao, Democratic Rep. Tom Lantos said Tuesday.

Lantos, a California representative and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, asked Yahoo Inc. officials to testify about the company's role in a case that sent Chinese newspaper writer and editor Shi to prison on a 10-year sentence.

Lantos asked Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang and Senior Vice President and General Counsel Michael Callahan to appear November 6.

"Our committee has established that Yahoo provided false information to Congress in early 2006," Lantos said in a written statement. "We want to clarify how that happened, and to hold the company to account for its actions both before and after its testimony proved untrue. And we want to examine what steps the company has taken since then to protect the privacy rights of its users in China."



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/16/yahoo.congress/index.html

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Now, someone please enlighten me. It is OK for Verizon and ATT to provide info to our government secret police (fbi and atf), but when Yahoo gives the Chinese govt information, it is wrong?

...Sorry, I'm in a very dreary and cynical mood today.

it gave Google supposed moral high ground.

P.S. A request for enlightenment in multiple answer form? :shrug: