Opinion

Yahoo sells out values in China

Posted November 19, 2007 10:00 pm

Last week, Michael Calahan, Yahoo general counsel, excused Yahoo and defended the outing of a pro-democracy Chinese journalist, Shi Tao, who will serve a 10-year sentence.

The journalist's crime was supporting the pro-democracy freedoms that America stands for, and which have nurtured Yahoo into existence.

Americans are dying in Iraq defending freedom, yet Yahoo is too cowardly or self-serving to pick up its business and get out of China, if necessary, to protect local employees and defend principles. Instead Yahoo laid at the feet of non-democratic legal system a comrade in the fight for democracy.

If the label reads "made in China," should we continue to support such a country with our dollars? Or are we, as much as Yahoo, in league with the devil of desire?

Gail Talbot

Huntley

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