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miriam_eAmnesty International came out with some information recently about the assistance China received from US internet companies for censoring the various uses of the internet in China.
Amnesty International has highlighted the case of Shi Tao, a journalist who used his Yahoo! account to email a US-based website, sharing the details of an internal government directive barring media reports that could fuel unrest during the 15th anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre. Shi was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Yahoo! provided information to the government for his prosecution.
If you want to do something about this, please follow the link below to the AIUSA Online Action Center and participate in the actions directing to Yahoo! founders and China's Minister of Justice: http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/china/actions.do
Amnesty International has highlighted the case of Shi Tao, a journalist who used his Yahoo! account to email a US-based website, sharing the details of an internal government directive barring media reports that could fuel unrest during the 15th anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre. Shi was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Yahoo! provided information to the government for his prosecution.
If you want to do something about this, please follow the link below to the AIUSA Online Action Center and participate in the actions directing to Yahoo! founders and China's Minister of Justice: http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/china/actions.do
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The PRC and American Companies
Date: 2006-02-27 11:06 pm (UTC)you have an account with "MyYahoo 2.0 beta"??
ironically
I am using that tool to gather/organize materials
for a presentation on this issue next month
jeffs
Re: The PRC and American Companies
Date: 2006-03-03 01:06 am (UTC)I'm not sure what kind of Yahoo account I have. I got one ages ago specifically to chat with a girl I know in USA. Apart from that I've never really used it, and it has probably been a couple of years since I last did.
Cool that you are gathering data on abuse of customer information... that's the topic of the presentation?
I've long felt that trust is one of the most valuable (and most under-valued) resources. If lost, it is extremely difficult to regain. Trust is a requirement for almost any transaction. In the long run the companies that don't place any value upon trust are shooting themselves in the foot.
Re: The PRC and American Companies
Date: 2006-03-03 11:44 am (UTC)Hey, miriam...
myWeb 2.0 (beta) is an interesting tag-oriented implementation of some "Web 2.0" ideas.
Actually, what I am gathering is stuff about information-access control efforts by governments (like the PRC and search-service filtering/control), and about initiatives to defeat such efforts (like the Tor Project).
jeffs