Yahoo! has been accused, again, of providing information to Chinese authorities that resulted in the [a href="vny!://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4695718.stm"]imprisonment of a Chinese journalist[/a].Yahoo! apparently provided Chinese police with internet activityinformation in a case that resulted in the arrest of Li Zhi. His crime- trying to join the dissident China Democracy Party.
Yahoo! says itsimply responds to requests from the authorities and was just complyingto local laws. A [a href="vny!://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=16402"]Reporters Without Borders post[/a]reported that 'Yahoo! certainly knew it was helping to arrest politicaldissidents and journalists, not just ordinary criminals'.
