Arashtamere writes "Yahoo aided the Chinese government in the arrest of a Chinese journalist, then its general counsel deliberately or negligently mislead the U.S. Congress about the company's role during a 2006 testimony, a senior lawmaker accused the company this week.
Shi Tao, arrested in November 2004, had used his e-mail account to forward information about a Chinese government ban on reporting about the Tiananmen Square crackdown on the 15th anniversary of the protests. He is serving a 10-year prison sentence.
Representative Tom Lantos, a California Democrat and chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, ripped into Yahoo and General Counsel Michael Callahan for failing to notify the committee when the company discovered his February 2006 testimony about Yahoo's role in the arrest of Shi. And he questioned why a company with Yahoo's resources has not come to the aid of Shi's family.
Callahan, in February 2006, testified that he did not know the nature of the investigation when Chinese authorities demanded Yahoo China turn over the IP (Internet Protocol) address for the person who turned out to be Shi." Link to Original Source
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