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Big Internet Companies still Act Evil?
By Boxun
Mar 17, 2007 - 1:01:08 AM

The most prominent activist �C Dr. Gao Yaojie is visiting the USA to receive an award from Vital Voice in DC. But her email account from Yahoo was "blocked", email sent to Dr. Gao by Boxun editor was returned as "the account does not exist". Dr. Gao said she could not login to her account in an interview by RFA.

Boxun has found that Dr. Gao's email can be accessed in Hong Kong, her email account is *****@yahoo.com.cn, we are not sure if the problem comes from China's great firewall or by Yahoo's action.

In the USA, Yahoo is being sued by its victims' family �C three jailed journalists' verdicts stated that Yahoo (Hong Kong) provided the yahoo accounts' private information such as user's IP address as "evidence" to China authorities. How many more unknown is still unknown.

Yahoo's wild activities are not limited to China or Hong Kong. In 2002, Yahoo USA closed Boxun's email group before June 4th �C a sensitive date for China. When Boxun contacted Yahoo's support, they told the reason was "confidential". Boxun's email group in Yahoo sent one email a day to thousands of subscribers. As the wild act of Yahoo, Boxun lost the email list.

Not long ago, Boxun Chinese news was excluded by Google Chinese news search. We were not given a reason, though many Chinese blogs are included. Then Boxun's English news was excluded too, i.e. if user searches Google news, nothing from Boxun will come up. We are expecting an explanation from Google.