"Yahoo" AND "Rat Bastards"

Apparently helping tyrants censor their citizens doesn't pay enough (or maybe it pays too much). Yahoo has now become a full-fledged government rat. Reporters Without Borders says the Internet giant helped the Chinese government track down a reporter who leaked the text of an internal Communist Party message. The reporter was sentenced to ten years in prison. (Via Boing Boing).

In July I blogged about how American companies are helping the Chinese police build a high-tech surveillance system called "Golden Shield".

Reason's Kerry Howley has written a compelling defense of Western tech companies that do business with China.