Congress Investigates Yahoos Role In Chinese Crackdown Of Democracy And The Media – Shi Tao Sent To Prison For 10 Years« Thread Started on Aug 8, 2007, 5:38pm » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Congress Investigates Yahoos Role In Chinese Crackdown Of Democracy And The Media – Shi Tao Sent To Prison For 10 Years Submitted by Dan Wilson on August 7, 2007 - 7:07pmread at source> http://www.bestsyndication.com/?q=08070 ... e.htm(Best Syndication) The House of Representatives is looking into whether Yahoo lied to Congress concerning a Chinese reporter who was sent to prison for 10 years. Reporter, poet and editor, Shi Tao, ran into hot water with Chinese authorities when he posted a document concerning the Communist Party on an overseas Chinese democracy site.The document concerned the crackdown on media and democracy in China. The House Foreign Affairs Committee announced the probe last Friday after reviewing the testimony of Yahoo senior vice-president and general counsel Michael Callahan. There are questions concerning Yahoo’s co-operation with Chinese authorities in the case against Tao. Chairman Tom Lantos will be investigating whether “Yahoo! misrepresented the company’s role in a human rights case in China that sent a journalist to jail for a decade.” “It is bad enough that a wealthy American company would willingly supply Chinese police the means to hunt a man down for shedding light on repression in China,” said Lantos, who also co-chairs the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. “Covering up such a despicable practice when Congress seeks an explanation is a serious offense. For a firm engaged in the information industry, Yahoo! sure has a lot of secrecy to answer for. We expect to learn the truth, and to hold the company to account.”