Don't be evil

Once again, google & yahoo have facilitated censorship for the chi-coms. Dissident Chinese professor to sue Yahoo! and Google for erasing his name.

A former Chinese university professor who was dismissed after he founded a democratic opposition party, plans to sue Yahoo! and Google in the United States for blocking his name from search results in China. It is not the first incidence of censorship of foreign internet portals operating in China.

Like this, for instance? Advocates Sue Yahoo In Chinese Torture Case.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, says the company was complicit in the arrests of 57-year-old Wang Xiaoning and other Chinese Internet activists. The suit is the latest development in a campaign by advocacy groups to spotlight the conduct of U.S. companies in China.

Yahoo isn't the only American technology company that has made compromises to operate in China. Cisco has supplied routers that allow the government to divert Internet traffic away from references to the Tiananmen Square massacre. Microsoft's blog service has filtered words such as democracy, and Google's search engine has blocked sites flagged by the government.

Or perhaps this one?

Shi Tao was convicted in 2005 of divulging state secrets after he posted a Chinese government order forbidding media organisations from marking the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising on the Internet. He was identified with information provided by Yahoo and was sentenced to 10 years in jail.

In November of last year, yahoo reached a confidential settlement agreement in two of the cases.

Yes. That's the ticket. Don't be evil....and don't use googlag / yahoo!

Update: Watch yer back, fellas. Chinese hackers crack Net censorship.