The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Richard Koman at ZDnet published a blog post late last night that amply demonstrates nearly everything that's right and wrong about Web journalism. Using information he received from an Iranian blogger, Koman accused Yahoo of handing over the account information for 200,000 Iranian bloggers to the country's authorities -- an act not unlike handing a list of synagogue members over...
Information Policy (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Yesterday, “Yahoo gave Iranian authorities the names and emails of some 200,000 Iranian Yahoo users, says a post on the Iranian Students Solidarity blog,” we said in a post, quoting ZDNet’s Richard Koman. “My sources indicate the information comes from...
TechSheep (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Richard Koman / ZDNet Government: Exclusive! Yahoo provided Iran with names of 200,000 users — This post is going to make some major allegations. I realize this is not completely buttoned down, but I believe there is sufficient veracity in what I have right now to publish. I am expecting to be able to provide [...]
TechSheep (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Richard Koman / ZDNet Government: Yahoo vigorously denies charges that it turned over user names to Iran — Oct. 9, 8:08 am PST - Further details on the sources of this story: My source informs me that this information was obtained by the Iranian Student Solidarity Organization, a group of 30,000 (according to their figures) [...]
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... wouldn't be entirely unfair, given that the story - written by 'lawyer and technology writer' Richard Koman, was a steaming pile of horseshit.
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Yesterday, “Yahoo gave Iranian authorities the names and emails of some 200,000 Iranian Yahoo users, says a post on the Iranian Students Solidarity blog,” we said in a post, quoting ZDNet’s Richard Koman. “My sources indicate the information comes from a group of resisters who have infiltrated the administration and [...]
Click World News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
ZDnet's Richard Koman accuses Yahoo of having collaborated with the Iranian regime during the recent post-election protests. Koman says the online giant provided names and emails for some 200,000 Iranian Yahoo users to authorities so that those same authorities would "unban" Yahoo on the state-controlled internet. The blog post does not include a response by Yahoo, but...
Web News Site (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
ZDnet's Richard Koman accuses Yahoo of having collaborated with the Iranian regime during the recent post-election protests. Koman says the online giant provided names and emails for some 200,000 Iranian Yahoo users to authorities so that those same authorities would "unban" Yahoo on the state-controlled internet. The blog post does not include a response by Yahoo to...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
ZDnet's Richard Koman accuses Yahoo of having collaborated with the Iranian regime during the recent post-election protests. Koman says the online giant provided names and emails for some 200,000 Iranian Yahoo users to authorities so that those same authorities would "unban" Yahoo on the state-controlled internet. The blog post does not include a response by Yahoo to...
Between the Lines (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Overnight one of our bloggers, Richard Koman, reported that Yahoo handed over user names to the Iranian government. We’re retracting the blog post. Here’s what went wrong. First, the post was based on a single source who had a clear agenda. That source wasn’t properly filtered and his charges weren’t verifiable by credible sources. Second, we never [...]
Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Richard Koman writes on ZDNet Government : Yahoo collaborated with the Iranian regime during the election protests, providing to the authorities the names and emails of some 200,000 Iranian Yahoo users. This is according to a post on the Iranian Students Solidarity (Farsi) blog. My sources indicate the information comes from a group of resisters who have infiltrated the administration...
TechCrunch UK (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... wouldn’t be entirely unfair, given that the story – written by ‘lawyer and technology writer’ Richard Koman, was a steaming pile of horseshit. READ MORE
TECHGEEK.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
A new report has claimed that Yahoo had collaborated with the Iranian regime during the election protests that happened in the country in June, passing emails and personal information (i.e. names) of some 200,000 users living in the country. The report, from the Iranian Students Solidarity blog (in Farsi) and later repeated on ZDNet by Richard [...]
PC World (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
A prominent blogger accuses Yahoo of human rights violations, Yahoo denies it. Who's right? Who's the Yahoo now? Who knows?
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
... some 200,000 Iranian Yahoo users, says a post on the Iranian Students Solidarity blog, quoted by Richard Koman on ZDNet . “My sources indicate the information comes from a group of resisters who have infiltrated the administration and are leaking out important information,” says Koman, going on, “These sources say that Yahoo representatives met with Iranian Internet authorities...
