Yahoo’s Executive Apologizes Over Imprisonment Of Chinese Dissident

Yahoo Executive Offers Apology to Lawmakers from the Wall Street Journal reports Michael Callahan, executive vice president and general counsel of Yahoo, issued a statement apologizing for providing incorrect information to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs over the jailed Chinese reporter. Part of the statement read: I neglected to directly alert the committee of […]

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Yahoo Executive Offers Apology to Lawmakers from the Wall Street Journal reports Michael Callahan, executive vice president and general counsel of Yahoo, issued a statement apologizing for providing incorrect information to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs over the jailed Chinese reporter.

Part of the statement read:

I neglected to directly alert the committee of this new information and that oversight led to a misunderstanding that I deeply regret and have apologized to the Committee for creating


It is alleged that Yahoo’s actions have lead to the imprisonment of a dissident in China, Shi Tao. Shi Tao is now in a Chinese prison for ten years.

For more history on this topic, start with Jerry Yang & Friends Called to Testify on Chinese Dissidents Case and keep clicking back from story to story.

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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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