Quotable: Congressman lambasts Yahoo execs as "pygmies"

Posted By Christine Y. Chen Tuesday, November 6, 2007 - 5:13 PM Share


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While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies."

—Rep Tom Lantos (D-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang (the chagrined-looking fellow pictured above) and General Counsel Michael Callahan, at a congressional hearing Tuesday on the tech company's business dealings in China.

The source of Lantos's ire? Yahoo provided information about reporter Shi Tao's e-mail account to the Chinese government, leading to the journalist's imprisonment. 

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