Terry Semel in news Again
Saturday, June 3rd, 2006
Yahoo CEO Terry Semel is making news again… Just came across this
Yahoo’s Terry Semel faced tough questions from Walt Mossberg — and the audience — over the search company’s decision to comply with requests for user data from the Chinese government, which has used the information to pursue dissidents.
One attendee asked Mr. Semel if Yahoo would have cooperated with Nazi Germany the same way it has with China. His response: “Yahoo has a basic obligation not to have a point of view on basic content, and to present content … and aggregate things and to allow people to make their own choices. I don’t know how I would have felt then.” He added, “I don’t feel good about what’s happening in China today. I don’t feel good about some of the things that happen in our own country.”
That one attendee as reported here is Shervin Pishevar
Shervin Pishevar COO of the Freewebs hosting service. His question, and Terry’s cop-out, pissed off bloggers mad at Yahoo’s lousy human rights record in China. Shervin wasn’t asking this for kicks — he has a history as a human rights activist.
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