Talk vs. Walk
by T. Colin Dodd
From the AP:
“HONG KONG - China should not punish people for expressing their political views on the Internet, Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) said Monday, a day after the mother of a Chinese reporter announced she was suing the U.S. company for helping officials imprison her son.”
Yahoo is by no means alone in this predicament (although one could argue that jailed journalist Shi Tao is the one in a tough spot), and China is not the only government that uses technology to keep its citizens in check. Every techcompany (in fact every global company) will eventually have to wrestle with this issue.
At least Yahoo is finally being forced to talk the talk. If companies have to answer for their decisions in court and in public, they might put a little more thought into them beforehand.
June 13th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
I guess Shi Tao is too young to remember Fulan Gong.