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Boo to Yahoo
Do you like Yahoo? If you use Yahoo in China and you say things the Chinese government doesn't like, you could wind up in jail. That's what happened to a journalist named Shi Tao. He sent an email that his government didn't like from a personal Yahoo account. Yahoo gave the Chinese government Shi Tao's name and they locked him up for 10 years.
In 1989, a group of students and Chinese citizens had a protest, where they asked their government to be more democratic. The Army brought in tanks and took some of those protestors to jail.
Fifteen years later on the anniversary of that protest, the Chinese government sent a document to newspapers and ordered them not to mention that protest.
Shi Tao sent an anonymous email from his Yahoo account to tell people outside of China that his government wasn't letting the newspapers mention the protests.
The Chinese government didn't know who sent the email, but they were unhappy that it got out. They asked Yahoo for the name of the person who sent it, and Yahoo told them the email came from Shi Tao. Many people think that Yahoo should not have given the Chinese government the information they requested. While testifying before Congress, Yahoo chief Jerry Yang apologized to Shi Tao's mother for the actions taken by his company.
I'm Michelle and that's what happened in the world this week.
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