Yahoo! accused! of! lying! to! Congress!
D'oh
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The House Committee on Foreign Affairs is calling Yahoo! chief executive Jerry Yang to a hearing on 6 November to explain why the company lied to Congress in early 2006 about its knowledge of the investigation into Chinese journalist Shi Tao.
Shi Tao ended up with a 10 year prison sentence, but Yahoo! told Congress it knew nothing about the nature of the investigation.
Committee chairman Tom Lantos said: "Last year, in sworn testimony before my subcommittee, a Yahoo! official testified that the company knew nothing 'about the nature of the investigation' into Shi Tao, a pro-democracy activist who is now serving 10 years on trumped up charges.
"We have now learned there is much more to the story than Yahoo! let on, and a Chinese government document that Yahoo! had in their possession at the time of the hearing left little doubt of the government's intentions."
In August of this year, Yahoo! accused Lantos of rushing to judgement and said its testimony was truthful.
The company is also facing a private lawsuit brought by Shi Tao's mother.
Yahoo! has maintained that it was only following local laws in handing over Shi Tao's emails and IP addresses. The company has been criticised, along with Microsoft, Google and other service providers, of failing to stand up to Chinese demands by groups including Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders.
The press release from the House Committee is here. ®
COMMENTS
Stupid...
They get a telling off for giving out the IP/e-mail addresses in China, yet if the old RIAA was after them they'd get a telling off if they *didn't* do it.
Shame they couldn't "accidentally lose" the logs and get away with it really.
I agree with Micha
It's easy to complain about the injustices of totalitarian regimes, but to affect it we'd have to stop buying those cheap USB sticks and lovely MacBooks made under those regimes.
Unfortunately in today's society there's often no alternative (in electronics especially) but to buy something made in an unjust system.
Perhaps the Western governments should pass a "fair trade" law that ensured no indentured servitude was used making products? Would our economies collapse, would the Chinese people get a better standard of living, or would it lead to more jobs in UK factories making those goods?
I don't know the answer to those questions, but I do know that not so long ago we were buying Ikea lamps made in East Germany and so on. What happened to our democratic ideals and the evils of Communism?
@Sceptical Bastard
But these 'hackneyed and bloody irritating' little quirks are what make The Register 'El Reg'!
If they quit doing these idiosyncratic things, how long would it be before you're saying, "The Register? I used to read it before they became just like everybody else."
Viva La Reg!
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