Yahoo Had to Help China on Jailed Reporter, Yang Says
Bloomberg Saturday, September 10, 2005
Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo! Inc., the most-visited Web site, had to pbutt documents to the Chinese government that led to the conviction of a local journalist because the company must follow local laws, co-founder Jerry Yang said.
Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based media rights group, last week accused Yahoo of helping Chinese authorities to convict Shi Tao, a reporter for the daily Dangdai Shang Bao. Tao was sentenced in April to 10 years in prison for sending a Chinese government memo about the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square mbuttacre to foreign Web sites, the group said.
''The government asked for the documents and backed it up with a court order,'' said Yang, who was speaking at an Internet conference in Hangzhou, China today. ''We had to hand over the documents. We have to comply with the law.''
Yahoo helped the investigation by linking Tao's Yahoo e- mail account to the memo, Reporters Without Borders said. The case highlights challenges U.S. Internet companies face in China, a country where the Web is subject to state censorship and businesses must deal with the changing government regulations.
Yang was attending an Internet conference sponsored by Alibaba.com Corp., China's biggest online commerce company. A scheduled media conference hosted by Yang and Jack Ma, the chief executive of Alibaba, was canceled.
Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo is expanding its operations in China, the world's second-largest Internet market in terms users. The company acquired Chinese keyword search engine 3721 Network Software Co. in January 2004 and agreed last month to pay $1 billion for 40 percent of Alibaba.com, China's biggest online retailer.
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