Apparently not our good friends at Yahoo. Shame.

Today, Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos accused Yahoo of acting like moral pygmies (NYT via SFist). While I respect the sentiment behind Lantos’ politically opportune statement, I wonder if he’s being fair to the pygmies?

Of course one shouldn’t knock Yahoo’s brand value without mentioning other tech leaders involved in helping the Chinese state to repress basic human rights. Let’s all take a sanctimonious moment to shame our friends at Google and Microsoft too.

I guess we should all remember that a freedom, once sold, becomes remarkably difficult to ever buy back.

PS: today is a good day for San Franciscans to vote.