Yahoo Tibet ‘Most Wanted’ posters
p2pnet news | Freedom:- p2pnet’s first post today was slugged China uses Yahoo in Tibet riots.
It went on >>>
Pictures of another 20 Tibetans have show up online. Only this time they weren’t of men killed by Chinese forces when demonstrators protested an order to raise the Chinese flag over monasteries in the Ngaba TAP (Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture). Instead, “Major Internet portals in China, including Yahoo.com and Sina.com, on Friday carried images of some of the Lhasa riot suspects wanted by police,” says the China state news agency Xinhua. “Phone numbers for the Public Security Bureau of Lhasa City were posted, along with the images of the suspects taken from videos. “The bureau called on the public to provide tips that may lead to their capture, according to the websites.”
Now, “Yahoo’s supporting the Chinese authorities by posting ‘wanted’ posters for the rioters on its site,” says Sophie in a comment post to another p2pnet Yahoo/China story.
This led off with, “The truthfulness of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and general counsel Michael Callahan has already been seriously questioned by US House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Tom Lantos. The two executives are central in the ongoing scandals in which Yahoo is accused of supplying information to Chinese police which resulted in the arrest and jailing of Chinese cyber dissidents.”
Following further, “strong” criticism, Yang and Callahan, “apologized for not fully informing the committee about the case” but deny they lied.
“Two of the 24 on the list have already been caught,” says Sophie under the Yahoo poster story, linking to a France 24 story which states:
“Yahoo China pasted a ‘most wanted’ poster across its homepage today in aid of the police’s witch-hunt for 24 Tibetans accused of taking part in the recent riots.
“MSN China made the same move, although it didn’t go as far as publishing the list on its homepage.”
France 24 continues >>>
Yahoo’s human rights values have been under fire since it was revealed that the company helped the Chinese police in its inquiry over the journalist Shi Tao, who had an email account with Yahoo. He was sentenced to ten years in prison in 2005 for “divulging state secrets”. After that case, it was also found out that Yahoo had provided evidence against at least three other Chinese dissidents. Following the allegations, the company had to offer an explanation to the American congress. It defended itself by explaining that the management of its operational arm in China had been delegated to Alibaba.
Stay tuned.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
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March 21st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Im amazed, I never expected yahoo would become the biggest internet solution for bounty hunters.
March 22nd, 2008 at 11:08 am
YAhoo Sucks! I believe that we should boycott Yahoo! The Hell with them!
Fortunatly now we know who are the Heros in Tibet to focus on!
March 24th, 2008 at 6:50 am
What is the difference between the controlling of media that US is trying to enforce on the internet and the same thing that other country such as China and Turkey doing? Are we more right doing the same thing because we look prettier and we do it in style?
By blocking the pictures of the 21 most wanted Tibetan rioters in all websites that US has control over, we are showing a great example of a life time on democracy and freedom of information that we unilaterally want to impose on other country. We keep shooting ourselves on the foot.