Media rights update
Journalist's union joins protest against Yahoo!'s compliance with Chinese authorities.. By Erin Roof
The National Union of Journalists has called on its 40,000 members to boycott Yahoo! and its products and services. Yahoo! aided the Chinese government’s attack on pro-democracy writers by providing information on its users, which allowed authorities to track and prosecute them.
For more information, read about Amnesty International’s campaign against internet repression.
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