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<b>Could you be arrested for reading this?</b><br /><br />In April 2004, the Chinese journalist Shi Tao used his Yahoo! email account to send a message to a U.S.-based pro-democracy website. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for "illegally providing state secrets to foreign entities." Disturbingly, Yahoo! provided information to the government for his prosecution. <br /><br />Enough is enough. Companies like Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft have sacrificed international human rights standards, and their own corporate missions, in pursuit of new and lucrative markets. <br /><br /><a href="http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/c.jhKPIXPCIoE/b.2590179/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=jhKPIXPCIoE&amp;amp;amp;amp;b=2590179&amp;amp;amp;amp;aid=10195">Ask your Representative to support H.R. 275, the Global Online Freedom Act</a><a href="http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/c.jhKPIXPCIoE/b.2590179/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=jhKPIXPCIoE&amp;amp;amp;amp;b=2590179&amp;amp;amp;amp;aid=10195"> </a>of 2007, which would prevent U.S. companies from carrying out or facilitating the suppression of online speech in repressive countries. <br /><br /><a href="http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/c.jhKPIXPCIoE/b.2590179/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=jhKPIXPCIoE&amp;amp;amp;amp;b=2590179&amp;amp;amp;amp;aid=10195">Take Action Now!</a>

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