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Tell Yahoo! To Stop helping human rights abusers!
Mar 3, 2006
Focus: Human Rights
Action Request: Various
Location: United States
Tell Yahoo! to stop helping human rights abusers.

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“Yahoo! sold its soul and is a national disgrace.” - Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, February 19, 2006




Everything about the Internet company Yahoo! screams fun – from the name itself to the bright purple colors, to the endless array of online services and distractions. Around the world they are associated with creativity, innovation and the free flow of ideas.

I think that’s why it is so shocking to learn that Yahoo! has colluded with the repressive Chinese government to help identify Internet dissidents who were subsequently thrown in jail.


The details are shocking. Investigations by Amnesty International and others show that:

 •  At the Chinese government’s request Yahoo! routinely censors search engine results 
     in China -- without disclosing that the censorship has happened.

 •   Yahoo!-disclosed private user information has allegedly been used to persecute at
      least three political dissidents in China.

 •   In one case, that of journalist Shi Tao, information turned over by Yahoo! was        
     submitted as evidence in a trial that ended in a 10-year prison sentence. A primary
      piece of evidence was a private email Mr. Shi sent to the United States from
      his Yahoo! email account.

We don’t really know how many voices have been silenced through Yahoo!’s collusion, or how many people have been rounded up.  What we do know, and why we need your help, is that Yahoo! cannot hide behind the supposed realpolitik of working in China.

Recent examinations of four American Internet technology companies operating in China– Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, and Cisco -- suggest that Yahoo! has most actively aided repressive forces in China, by helping to jail political dissidents.

New York Times columnist and consistent voice for human rights Nicholas Kristof concludes “Yahoo! sold its soul and is a national disgrace.”


Amnesty demands that Yahoo! use its influence to secure prisoner of conscience Shi Tao's release and to stop any actions that could undermine human rights in any country in which it operates.


Thanks for all you do.

Sincerely,
Bill Schulz
Bill Schulz
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