Media, Tech & Telecom
Judging Yahoo
December 2007: The US internet firm erred in its dealings over the Shi Tao case, but to what extent should it be damned?
On November 6, Congressman Tom Lantos, Democrat of California, looked down from the dais of a congressional hearing and pronounced judgment. “Technologically and financially you are giants,” he told Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and general counsel Michael Callahan. “Morally you are pygmies.”
Lantos’s fury was rooted in the fate of Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist sentenced in 2005 to 10 years in prison for the catchall offense of “leaking state secrets.&rd...
Lantos’s fury was rooted in the fate of Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist sentenced in 2005 to 10 years in prison for the catchall offense of “leaking state secrets.&rd...
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