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Last weekend, we told you that Yahoo! is now apologizing for not telling the full truth to Congress at the February 2006 hearing where Yahoo! was taken to task for its role in the conviction of Chinese journalist Shi Tao. Now both Republicans and Democrats have launched scathing attacks on Yahoo. San Mateo Democrat Tom Lantos has called Yahoo "moral pygmies", and New Jersey Republican Chris Smith compared Yahoo’s cooperation with the Chinese government to companies that cooperated with Nazi Germany during World War II.

Photo of the Mont Blanc superstore on Nanjing Lu from All Roads Lead to China

Google has been in the news recently after co-founder Sergey Brin said at the World Economic Forum in Davos said, speaking of Google's decision to comply with censorship regulations in China, that "on a business level, the decision to censor ... was a net negative."

For the ever-pragmatic Chinese, adopting English names has always represented a way for them to bridge the linguistic and cultural gap. Now, as China widens its reach abroad and as the number of expatriates living in China swells, picking an English name has become a rite of passage for most young, urban Chinese. So ... this is news?

The first case they are profiling in that of jailed Chinese journalist Shi Tao. Visit irrepressible.info or observer.co.uk/amnesty/ for more information.

The Guardian reports on alleged proof that Yahoo! squealed on Chinese dissidents:

The Committee to Protect Journalists gave out three press freedom awards this year, to three journalists and one lawyer, and one of those journalists was jailed reporter Shi Tao. Shi Tao's story became high-profile in the international media after it was revealed that the incriminating evidence in his case came from email sent from his Yahoo! account. This led to condemnations of Yahoo! for complying with the Chinese government, the most recent coming from a veteran dissident Liu Xiaobo. Whether or not Yahoo! was legally obliged to provide this information seems to still be debated, as some have claimed that Yahoo! Hong Kong revealed this information, and as part of the SAR they supposedly aren't beholden to Chinese/PRC law, but according to this report, the servers for the email account (check the name of Shi's email account, you should get a sense of where he stands politically), are located in China. Shanghaiist isn't a student of the law, so we don't know where in this delicate case where both law and ethics are involved, where to take a stand. Certainly, we think that it's amusing that Liu Xiaobo would write to Jerry Yang alone, because Jerry Yang is Taiwanese-American, but frankly, in this day and age, does that "cultural bond" really amount to anything?