Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders has accused Yahoo of being "a police informant for the Chinese regime", following allegations that information supplied by the company helped jail a journalist. Shi Tao, the Chinese journalist at the centre of the Yahoo controversy, was sentenced in April to 10 years in prison for sending, via e-mail, the text of an internal Communist Party message to foreign websites. The message warned journalists about the dangers of social unrest as a result of the return of dissidents on the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4222866.stm
Google is already cooperating with the ChiCom's to help them block access to sites they don't want their subjects to see. Why should we expect any better from Yahoo?
China has the second largest internet user in the world behind the US, so this does surprise me at all. At the end of the day, Yahoo or Google or any other internet company will tolerate whatever regulations set by the Chinese gov. That includes spying on their behalf or releasing confidential information.
Yahoo and Google both work with the US goverment too. Remember goverments have both men with guns and prison cells and they also make you "give" them money. That means Yahoo is financing the Commies too
ohh well, after all yahoo, google and whoever else like it are 'business', they will be more concerned about business than anything else