YAHOO! helped China send journalist to prison for 10 years

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"Yahoo! helped send Shi Tao, 37-- a journalist with the business daily Dangdai Shang Ba--to prison for 10 years, by providing China's state security authorities with details that helped to identify and convict him, the Paris-based international organization Reporters Without Borders announced today."

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Where's that money going to come from?

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