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Reporters Group Weighs In On Yahoo Hearing
Tuesday's House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Yahoo's dealings in China was "a great opportunity" for the company to set the record straight on its practices in that country, Reporters Without Borders spokeswoman Lucie Morillon told Tech Daily Dose when the event ended.
"Although Yahoo executives apologized to the relatives of the cyber-dissidents they helped send to jail, the company didn't display any transparency on its actions and kept using the same arguments over again, that they have to obey the local laws and don't have control of their operations in China," she said.
The hearing highlighted the need for H.R. 275, a bill known as the Global Online Freedom Act, "to be passed as soon as possible to protect American IT companies from collaborating with repressive regimes," Morillon said. She testified in February 2006 about the controversial topic.
Read more about the hearing in Technology Daily's PM Edition.
Posted by Andrew on November 6, 2007 03:43 PM | Permalink
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