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The Lantos/Yahoo! legacy

Tom Lantos may have made his very last stand for human rights last November when he recalled Yahoo! executives to challenge their earlier testimony surrounding the Shi Tao case. Shi Tao is a Chinese activist serving ten years in prison on trumped up charges and Yahoo! stand accused of handing...

Tags: Coalition, Yahoo! Inc., Shi Tao, Policies And Procedures, Internet, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-02-12

Having aidied in arrest, Yahoo now criticizes China for jailing journalist

Going against the grain of its fellow search engine giants, Yahoo has publically criticized China for punishing citizens who expressing their political views on the Internet, reports the Associated PressThe announcement comes after the mother of Chinese reporter Shi Tao announced she was suing Yahoo for helping officials imprison her...

Tags: China

Blog posts 2007-06-12

Yahoo: Would you work for a "police informant" for the Chinese government?

From the London based The Independent: CHINA Published state secrets Shi Tao was sentenced to 10 years in prison after "illegally providing state secrets to foreign entities". His crime was to have e-mailed details of the Chinese government's plans to handle news coverage of the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Shi Tao

Blog posts 2006-10-30

Additional Resources

Yahoo's China "police informant" role sparked a $47.5 billion slide in market value

The anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests recalls the courage of the Chinese people and the vicious response of the Chinese government. It also recalls the gutless behavior of Silicon Valley tech companies towards the Chinese government in pursuit of profits rather than morals. Many are guilty...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Shi, Government, Vertical Industries, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Digital storm of protests for New York Times defense of AIG bonuses

Andrew Ross Sorkin, a reporter at the New York Times, took a contrarian position on Tuesday, writing an opinion piece that defended the multi-million dollar bonus payments by AIG. . . . If government officials were to break the contracts, they would be “breaking a...

Tags: China, Journalist, Journalism, Yahoo! Inc., American International Group Inc., New York Times Co., Taxes, Free Trade, Wiki, Personal Finance, Recruitment & Selection, Financial Planning, Finance, Online Communications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Human Rights: An Inconvenient Truth

The debate on business and human rights is set to heat up this year with the 60th anniversary of the UN General Assembly resolution adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights UDHR. The Beijing Olympics and a sharpened focus on the potential winners and losers in the climate change crisis...

Tags: James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-02-25

Yahoo! heroes instead of zeroes in stand against MSFT but not against Chinese repression

Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's offer smacks of a face saving attempt by its management and board to look heroic following its despicable behaviour in China. MSFT is very likely going to prevail with its acquisition since it seems to have the support of Yahoo's largest shareholders. Yahoo's...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MSFT, Shi, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-02-17

Yahoo settles with dissident families, but it may be responsible for hundreds of arrests

Yahoo has settled with the families of two Chinese dissidents it helped put in a Chinese prison. Terms of the deal with the families of Shin Tao, Wang Xiaoning and Yu Ling weren't announced, according to Reuters. "Plaintiffs and defendants hereby jointly stipulate to...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Litigation, Free Trade, Business Operations, Finance, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-13

Yahoo settles with jailed Chinese journalists

Updated: Yahoo has settled with two Chinese journalists that were jailed after the company turned over their online information. According to the Associated Press, Yahoo settled a lawsuit with two journalists and a family member. They sued Yahoo after its Yahoo HK subsidiary gave Chinese authorities emails...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Internet, Litigation, E-mail, Business Operations, Online Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-13

Yahoo! and its looming hiring crisis following despicable acts in China

Can moral "pigmies" and "police informants" attract the best and brightest talent? Just in case you missed it, last week Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang and its chief lawyer Michael Callahan were called to Washington DC to explain to lawmakers why Yahoo! helped the Chinese government arrest...

Tags: Hiring, Yahoo! Inc., Shi, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2007-11-10

Yahoo's Callahan parses his testimony

Business Week has a copy of Yahoo GC Michael Callahan's far right written testimony to Congress, in which he explains his February 2006 testimony and why it was not a lie. In my testimony, I stated: "When Yahoo! China in Beijing was required to...

Tags: Testimony, Yahoo! Inc., Business Week, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-06

Rep: Yahoo lied to Congress about Chinese journalist

Yahoo lied to Congress last year about its role in the arrest of a Chinese journalist, Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) charged Tuesday. Lantos said Yahoo general counsel Michael Callahan lied when he told a House panel that Yahoo had no information "about the nature of the investigation" by Chinese authorities...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., U.S. Congress, Tom Lantos, Security, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-16

Yahoo wants dissidents' case dismissed

Yahoo wants a federal court to dismiss Chinese dissident Shi Tao's complaint against the company for allegedly facilitating his arrest by Chinese authorities. Yahoo Monday filed a 51-page motion to dismiss, claiming that Shi's problem is with Chinese authorities and that the case has "no place in American courts." ...

Tags: China, Yahoo! Inc., Government, Sklar, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-08-28

China crackdown on media as Congress investigates Yahoo

Every five years China's Communist Party Congress takes place and in celebration the government engages in repression of dissent and dangerous thinking. Wednesday, China crackdown on “false news reports, unauthorized publications and bogus journalists,” the New York Times reports.A journalist was given a one-year prison sentence and a $130...

Tags: China, Yahoo! Inc., Media, U.S. Congress, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-08-16

Whistle blown on wiki for whistle-blowers

Whistle blown on wiki for whistle-blowersThis site has to be the worst idea of the year.Not only can any Joe-shmoe post totally fabricated information anonimously, but it's also considered to be fact until it's democratically proven otherwise. I'm curious when it was decided that the truth is decided by...

Tags: Vertical industries, Wiki, moderator, chinese page, government

Discussion threads 2007-02-07

Yahoo and Google should not endanger their Chinese users

One of the most powerful images of the 20th Century is "Tank Man" the man that walked out in front of a column of tanks -- a day after the bloody suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. He walked into the middle of a pedestrian crossing, with...

Tags: Silicon Valley

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Why China censors Wikipedia

Why China censors WikipediaInformation censorshipThere is no such thing as harmful information. The only information that could possibly be harmful is the information that you don't get......why the chinese sysops can still manage wikipedia in Chinese despite block?"But on sensitive questions of China's modern history or on hot-button issues, the...

Tags: Wiki, Vertical industries, moderator, government, Wikipedia

Discussion threads 2006-02-22

Conflicts

I have a few problems with Yahoo. They are:1. The very regrettable incident where they outed a Chinese dissident who is now in a Chinese prison. 2. An odd relationship with SBC3. Being a primary source of revenue for spyware vendors while also providing an anti-spyware solution. First the Shi...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., SBC

Blog posts 2005-11-04

Big Brother's database

Big Brother's databaseSounds like something...The current US administration wants to do.Multiple Databases...Have multiple databases that communicate with each other over different networks. Retrieving data as required based on access level to the data. The db can return "generic" terms instead of "individual" statisics.Whether communication be through EDI, ebXML, or XML...

Tags: Social Security, Yahoo! Inc., ID card, Big Brother, database, big deal

Discussion threads 2005-09-15

Yahoo Mail looking more like Outlook

Yahoo Mail looking more like OutlookLooks niceDo they do free POP mail? They DON'T? Then its useless.Will Outlook "look" help Chinese gov't find dissidents?With Yahoo's assistance and yahoo founder Jerry Yang's acquiescence (or worse, Yang's defense of Yahoo) Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist, now faces a 10-year-jail sentence for...

Tags: E-mail providers, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Mail

Discussion threads 2005-09-15