Yahoo with China gov't?!
I just saw the ABC news on tv talkin' about Yahoo! involved with China gov't. They're censoring freedom of speech via cyberspace. Internet under surveillance. My gawd. Read on:
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"On 7 November 2002, on the eve of the opening of the communist party’s 16th congress, Liu Di, a student aged 22, was arrested on the campus of Beijing university. Her family was not told of her arrest until police came to search her home, confiscating her notes, books and computer. Her father told Reporters Without Borders he did not understand the reason for the jailing of his daughter, who posted messages signed the "stainless mouse" in discussion forums. "She loved to surf the Internet in search of news but she was frustrated by the lack of freedom on the Internet and she may have been critical or sarcastic without ever thinking of the consequences," her father said. Her family has still not been allowed to see her. The authorities accuse her of "jeopardising national security" and say they are not revealing her place of detention in order to put "pressure" on her."
-Reporters Without Borders
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