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Via CSR Asia, the British journalists union has called upon its members to boycott Yahoo!.:

LONDON — The union representing journalists in the UK and Ireland called on its 40,000 members to boycott all Yahoo Inc. products and services to protest the Internet company’s reported actions in China.

The National Union of Journalists said it sent a letter on Friday to Dominique Vidal, Yahoo Europe’s vice president, denouncing the company for allegedly providing information to Chinese authorities about journalists.

The union also said it would stop using all Yahoo-operated services.

Yahoo has been cited in court decisions as supplying China’s government with information to help them identify, prosecute, and jail writers advocating democracy.

“The NUJ regards Yahoo’s actions as a completely unacceptable endorsement of the Chinese authorities,” wrote Jemima Kiss, chairman of the NUJ new media council in the letter to Vidal.

Yahoo spokesperson Mary Osako said the Sunnyvale, California-based company believes it must conduct business in each country in ways that business in each country in ways that comply with local laws.

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by myrick @ 10:16 pm. Filed under Asia, China, East Asia, Northeast Asia, Web/Tech

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One Response to “UK Journalists Boycott Yahoo”

No Stone Unturned Says:
June 10th, 2006 at 4:22 am
The British journalists are correct in boycotting Yahoo. Yahoo deserves a boycott for other reasons as well. Yahoo has deleted from Yahoo e-mail accounts of U.S. Yahoo e-mail account holders articles from British papers that contain embarrassing information on, among other things, the role of the U.S. in extraordinary rendition. For example, a friend sent me Stephen Grey’s excellent piece on extraordinary rendition, first published in “Le monde diplomatique” last Spring (2005), then available in English in November 2005. Yahoo marked Grey’s article “read, marked for deletion,” before I could even read the article. My friend sent me other things from the “Guardian” that I never received. Therefore, it would appear that Yahoo is acting as a censor right in its own backyard, i.e. on the U.S. web.

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