DeclinetoState
02-10-2006, 02:03 PM
Reuters (http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-02-10T005311Z_01_N0917515_RTRUKOC_0_US-CHINA-INTERNET.xml&rpc=22)
By Joel Rothstein and Eric Auchard
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. Internet companies faced fresh bipartisan criticism in the Congress on Thursday following renewed controversy over Yahoo Inc.'s alleged role in the Chinese government's eight-year prison sentence against a second dissident.
"I don't like any American company ratting out a citizen for speaking out against their government," Rep. Tim Ryan, an Ohio Democrat and member of the House Human Rights Subcommittee, told Reuters on Thursday.
"This is the tip of the iceberg of a very oppressive regime that we have almost become accustomed to America," Rep. Chris Smith, a Republican and chairman of the House Human Rights Subcommittee, told Reuters.
Yet both Bushes and Clinton, along with much of Congress, have seemed willing to bend over backwards to kiss the Chicom's butts, no matter what they do.
By Joel Rothstein and Eric Auchard
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. Internet companies faced fresh bipartisan criticism in the Congress on Thursday following renewed controversy over Yahoo Inc.'s alleged role in the Chinese government's eight-year prison sentence against a second dissident.
"I don't like any American company ratting out a citizen for speaking out against their government," Rep. Tim Ryan, an Ohio Democrat and member of the House Human Rights Subcommittee, told Reuters on Thursday.
"This is the tip of the iceberg of a very oppressive regime that we have almost become accustomed to America," Rep. Chris Smith, a Republican and chairman of the House Human Rights Subcommittee, told Reuters.
Yet both Bushes and Clinton, along with much of Congress, have seemed willing to bend over backwards to kiss the Chicom's butts, no matter what they do.