The colonized country would have their laws and persons often violated as a result.
Currently, Yahoo Inc. asked in a 51-page defense filing in the Northern District of California, a federal court, to dismiss a human rights lawsuit. I believe Yahoo is wrong.
Yahoo's Hong Kong subsidiary, Yahoo Hong Kong Ltd., (YHKL), provided information about dissidents to the Chinese government and subsequently a lawsuit was filed against Yahoo by the World Organization for Human Rights USA.
What is clear is that the information supplied led to the persecution, torture and imprisonment of four Chinese dissidents.
Writer Wang Xiaoning was charged on incitement to subvert state power. Wang was sentenced to 10 years in prison in September 2003. Yahoo gave his e-mail account information and IP address to the Chinese government.
Yahoo's defense is that it doesn't condone the suppression of their rights and liberties by their government, it had no control over laws passed by the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the ways in which those laws were enforced.
I disagree. China does not adhere to international norms and standards and this position makes it more likely that information turned over to Chinese authorities, as opposed to information that might convict child-molesters, and others accused of heinous crimes in the West, might be misused. Yahoo's defense is disingenious.
Would anyone consider China to be a paragon of free speech?