5 posts and columns on Shi Tao

Sorry I Forgot Your Birthday, Jerry. I Was in Jail!

in News on November 7, 2007 at 6:44 am PT

If you think our witnesses today are uncomfortable sitting in this climate-controlled room and accounting for their company’s spineless and irresponsible actions, imagine how life is for Shi Tao, spending 10 long years in a Chinese dungeon for exchanging information publicly–exactly what Yahoo claims to support in places like China.” –Statement of Rep. Tom Lantos [...]

Facebook's OpenSocial Invite Apparently Lost in Mail

in Social on November 2, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Facebook’s OpenSocial Invite Apparently Lost in Mail

in Social on November 2, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Serves Us Right for Using Google Translate …

in News on November 2, 2007 at 5:16 am PT

Yahoo has invested millions of dollars in China over the years. Indeed, it’s a cornerstone investor in Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba.com, which is slated to go public next week in one of the hottest technology initial public offerings since Google. It had to run afoul of the language barrier sometime, right? It’s just a shame [...]

Newest Yahoo Mail Feature: BCC Beijing

in News on August 8, 2007 at 7:45 am PT

Sure, Yahoo signed China’s “Public Pledge on Self-Discipline for the Chinese Internet Industry,” a voluntary agreement to monitor and restrict information deemed “harmful” by Beijing, but did it have to take it quite so seriously? Was it really necessary to divulge the identity of a Chinese journalist who was subsequently arrested and sent to prison for a decade?