Rights Group Says Yahoo's Cooperation Helped China Jail Journalist

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB4BYPMADE.html

BEIJING (AP) - A French media watchdog said Tuesday that information provided by Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. helped Chinese authorities convict and jail a writer who had penned an e-mail about press restrictions.

The harsh criticism from Reporters Without Borders marks the latest instance in which a prominent high-tech company has faced accusations of cooperating with Chinese authorities to gain favor in a country that's expected to become an Internet gold mine.

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo and two of its biggest rivals, Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN, previously have come under attack for censoring online news sites and Web logs, or blogs, that include content that China's communist government wants to suppress.

Reporters Without Borders ridiculed Yahoo for becoming even cozier with the Chinese government by becoming a police informant in a case that led to the recent conviction of Chinese journalist Shi Tao.

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1. Yahoo and the PRC

This is the second story I've seen about Yahoo accomodating the Chinese government regarding dissent. But they are not alone.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12123694.htm