'Make Money Without Doing Evil?' Caught Between Authoritarian Regulations in Emerging Markets and a Global Law of Human Rights, U.S. ICTs Face a Twofold Quandary

摘要

In 2004, Yahoo!'s Hong Kong subsidiary received a request from the Beijing State Security Bureau for information about a Yahoo! email account registration, login times, and associated IP addresses. The request cited the account-holder's "illegal provision of state secrets to foreign entities." Yahoo! Hong Kong complied with the request and furnished information leading to the identification of a Chinese journalist named Shi Tao. On the U.S.-based Internet site "Democracy Forum," Shi Tao had described a Chinese government warning to journalists to avoid making anti-government statements and to report any contact with human rights activists.