Could it be from the Yang Effect-once again aiding the Chinese to the detriment of justice. Jerry Yang the co-founder of Yahoo, a Chinese (Taiwanese till he was 8), who has supported the Chinese government in efforts relating to human rights violations in China.
A snippet of this article here:
The YAHOO ,case that landed 37-year-old Shi Tao a 10-year prison sentence. A related case involving an online writer named Wang Xiaoning also came up at the event. (For more, click here for our live coverage of the hearing.)
The company executives (Yang and Callahan) offered repeated apologies to the committee, both for failing to update the politicians with details about their subsidiary’s cooperation with the Chinese government and for the suffering faced by families of the imprisoned dissidents. They also professed the Internet portal’s commitment to human rights and continued to defend their decision to keep their Chinese operations alive, despite the censorship-happy whims of the Communist power.
In the end, politicians displayed virtually no sympathy for Yahoo’s plight. Lantos called on Yahoo to account for what he called "spineless and irresponsible actions" in its Chinese operations.
"Look into your own soul, and see the damage you have done to an innocent human being and his family," Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the panel’s chairman, told them at the hearing’s close. "It will make no difference to the committee what you do, but it will make you better human beings, if you recognize your own responsibility for the enormous damage your policies have created."
And now this…
The article states that
SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo Inc knew it had been a target to sophisticated Chinese cyber attacks on US corporations before Google alerted the company
to them a source familiar with the matter said, but chose to remain silent after its bigger rival went public.
So WTF? Yahoo knew of this, they said nothing. We have Yang, who has shown his support of the Chinese government aiding in human rights violations and now this.Yahoo presumably takes the side of the PRC over free and open rights. My question is that either America is the greatest place on the earth, to wit, we allow people from all over the world to exploit our resources, turn their backs on all we hold dear, and do nothing about it, or we are the biggest fools on the planet ( as many terrorists believe with our open doors)- and will soon fall as the Romans did.
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