Time To Boycott Yahoo

This might be old news to some but I just found out about it.

Human rights watchdog Privacy International has called for a worldwide consumer boycott of Yahoo, which has been implicated in the imprisonment of a Chinese journalist.

According to documents released by Reporters Without Borders, Shi Tao was jailed for ten years after Yahoo had provided the Chinese government with details of an email he had sent to Western media. See http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=14884

Privacy International's director, Simon Davies, said the actions of Yahoo were reprehensible. "This is a disreputable episode. Western companies are increasingly cutting deals with the Chinese government to serve their shareholders' interests at the expense of ethical governance".

"A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and to other companies who cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market".

"Until China recognises the basis of due legal process and fundamental rights Western companies have no moral foundation to reap profits from its population."

"Yahoo and other technology companies employ a flimsy moral argument of pragmatism to justify such actions. The public should see these arguments for the sham that they are."

Courtesy of Privacy International

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