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Journalism Union Calls for Yahoo.com Boycott

HeadlineJun 05, 2006

In media news, the leading journalist union in Britain and Ireland has called on its 40,000 members to boycott the Internet company Yahoo. The union criticized the company for helping the Chinese government identify and prosecute pro-democracy journalists and dissidents. The union said it would stop using all Yahoo-operated services including the popular search engine.

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