Yahoo! nazis collaborate with Chinese commies.

From CNSNews:

Internet giant Yahoo, accused this week of providing information that helped land a Chinese journalist in prison for 10 years, says it had no choice.

"Just like any other global company, Yahoo must ensure that its local country sites must operate within the laws, regulations and customs of the country in which they are based," Yahoo said in a prepared statement, read by spokeswoman Mary Osako over the phone from Sunnyvale, California, late Wednesday.

Said the law abiding German Christian as his Jewish friends were led to the slaughter.

She was responding to allegations arising this week about the company's alleged role in the imprisonment last spring of Chinese journalist Shi Tao, who used his private Yahoo email account to send information to a pro-democracy Chinese publication in the U.S.

According to a translation of the official trial record, Chinese investigators tracked him down with the help of "account holder information furnished by Yahoo Holdings (Hong Kong)," which confirmed the IP address of Shi's computer and the phone number he used to connect to the Internet.

Kevin Li of the California-based Dui Hua Foundation confirmed Wednesday that the group had translated the court document, as part of its ongoing work to document and disseminate to governments and rights groups information about political trials in China.

The case was brought to public attention by the media freedom lobby group, Reporters Without Borders, which had strong words for Yahoo.

"We already knew that Yahoo collaborates enthusiastically with the Chinese regime in questions of censorship, and now we know it is a Chinese police informant as well," the organization said in a statement.

"Information supplied by Yahoo led to the conviction of a good journalist who has paid dearly for trying to get the news out," it said. "It is one thing to turn a blind eye to the Chinese government's abuses and it is quite another thing to collaborate."

Time to abandon those free e-mail accounts, kiddies.