Tech Needs More Conscientious Objectors

Mr. Liu’s letter said that Yahoo “complied with China’s State Security police by tracing Shi Tao’s internet activity and providing his email account, IP address and other personal information to them. Mr. Liu couldn’t have possibly known that a decade later, Google’s Dragonfly modifications of Search would censor information on his Nobel Prize and reportedly tie Search queries to phone numbers. Two years after Mr. Liu’s letter, while Shi Tao was serving a 10-year sentence that would ultimately be reduced to eight and a half, Mr. Yang appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

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