From San Francisco Chronicle via truthout.org :
Michael Likosk and Michael Shtender-Auerbach | When American Corporations Deliver US Foreign Policy ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110407A.shtml
In The San Francisco Chronicle, Michael Likosk and Michael Shtender-Auerbach write: "The headlines that Yahoo had handed over Chinese journalist and democratic activist Shi Tao's e-mails and IP address to China's secret police dominated the news last year. This sent a panic through an industry usually praised for its social responsibility and unaccustomed to external scrutiny.
Congress called in the general counsels of four of our leading high tech firms - Cisco, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo - to account for their collaboration with the Chinese government. In the course of events, it became clear that the problem in the high-tech sector was not isolated but endemic."
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