Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Chinese Dissident Slams Internet Companies

Martyn Williams writes on InfoWorld:

A respected Chinese dissident has warned that the capitulation of Western Internet companies to China's authorities is a more serious threat to free speech in the country than the Chinese government's filtering of what its citizens can access on the Internet.

Speaking in Tokyo Monday, Wei Jingsheng, singled out Yahoo for its part in revealing information that helped land a journalist in jail in 2004.

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