http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20071107/yahoo-shi-tao/ by John Paczkowski Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:08:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20071107/yahoo-shi-tao/comment-page-1/#comment-3183 Good Effort, Moral Pygmies … | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:09:11 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20071107/yahoo-shi-tao/#comment-3183 [...] Yahoo’s public shaming before the House Foreign Affairs Committee last November aparently had quite an effect on Internet companies cooperating with Chinese government censorship and demands for information on dissidents. Less than a year after that brutal Capitol Hill humiliation, during which Committee Chairman Tom Lantos (D., Calif.) lambasted Yahoo’s leadership as moral “pygmies,” Yahoo, along with Microsoft and Google, is introducing a code of conduct that will govern their business practices in repressive countries. The Global Network Initiative, as it’s called, commits the companies to a general support for freedom of expression on the Internet, requiring them to at least try to “avoid or minimize the impact of government restrictions on freedom of expression” and to “narrowly interpret and implement government demands that compromise privacy.” [...] [...] Yahoo’s public shaming before the House Foreign Affairs Committee last November aparently had quite an effect on Internet companies cooperating with Chinese government censorship and demands for information on dissidents. Less than a year after that brutal Capitol Hill humiliation, during which Committee Chairman Tom Lantos (D., Calif.) lambasted Yahoo’s leadership as moral “pygmies,” Yahoo, along with Microsoft and Google, is introducing a code of conduct that will govern their business practices in repressive countries. The Global Network Initiative, as it’s called, commits the companies to a general support for freedom of expression on the Internet, requiring them to at least try to “avoid or minimize the impact of government restrictions on freedom of expression” and to “narrowly interpret and implement government demands that compromise privacy.” [...]

]]> http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20071107/yahoo-shi-tao/comment-page-1/#comment-832 Took You Long Enough, Moral Pygmy … | Digital Daily | John Paczkowski | AllThingsD Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:19:05 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20071107/yahoo-shi-tao/#comment-832 [...] CEO Jerry Yang’s public shaming before the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week has apparently accomplished what Yahoo’s skewed moral compass could not: prompt the [...] [...] CEO Jerry Yang’s public shaming before the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week has apparently accomplished what Yahoo’s skewed moral compass could not: prompt the [...]

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