Lantos calls Yahoo to answer for its betrayal of a Chinese journalist

[JDPriestly]

WASHINGTON — Yahoo Inc.'s chief executive and top lawyer on Tuesday defended their company's involvement in the jailing of a Chinese journalist. Irate lawmakers accused them of collaborating with an oppressive communist regime.

"While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies," House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, D-Calif., said angrily after hearing from the two men.

Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang and General Counsel Michael Callahan offered apologies and promises to do better but no specific commitments. Lawmakers insisted that Yahoo along with other companies must use its market strength to change China, not just comply with the government's demands in order to gain access to tens of millions of Internet users.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20071106/congress-yahoo/

If Bush is so concerned about freedom, why are we still trading with China, a major considering its repression of free speech?