Rediscovering Values for Lent: The Mind of Christ - Jim Wallis - God's Politics Blog: "In 2005, Yahoo handed over to the Chinese government the names of Chinese dissidents who used Yahoo email accounts to try and hide their identities. As a result, one reporter was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sending to foreigners a message he had received from Chinese authorities telling their newspaper to downplay the fifteenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
A Chinese dissident named Liu Xiaobo, who had spent time in a Chinese prison himself, saw it differently. In an open letter to Yahoo’s founder, Jerry Yang, he wrote, “I must tell you that my indignation at and contempt for you and your company are not a bit less than my indignation at and contempt for the communist regime. …"
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