[Journalist Shi Tao] was imprisoned last April on the basis of the information Yahoo provided, for ``revealing state secrets''...Yahoo did not attempt to use the [Hong Kong] legal system to oppose the Beijing order. It did not attempt to use the Hong Kong press to publicise what it could have claimed was its plight in shopping a journalist... [Instead,] when the publicity became too intense to wave off with more no-comments, the Yahoo founder and aspiring publisher Jerry Yang [gave the following statement]: ``We did not know what they wanted information for, we are not told what they look for, if they give us the proper documentation in a court order we give them things that satisfy local laws. I don't like the outcome of what happened with this thing, we get a lot of these orders, but we have to comply with the law and that's what we need to do.'' [also refers to Microsoft, Google, Cisco Systems, Star TV (Star Group, part of News Corporation)]