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Microsoft Bans 'Democracy' for China's Web Users

Posted by timothy on from the not-merely-chinese-but-china's dept.

Doc Ruby writes "As reported, paradoxically, on MSN, 'Microsoft's new Chinese internet portal has banned the words 'democracy' and 'freedom' from parts of its website in an apparent effort to avoid offending Beijing's political censors.' MSN China says it must comply with local laws, but there is no Chinese law against the use of these words."

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  1. Democracy is Eurocentric idea. by glrotate · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why should it be forced on China? Can't one place be free of McDonalds, MTV, Democracy and Coca-Cola?

  2. Microsoft & Chinese Bigotry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    This Bill Gates is the same Bill Gates who wants to open the floodgates to H-1Bs from China. Microsoft already employs, at Redmond, a shocking number of Chinese from the mainland. The company is quickly evolving into a Chinese company, with all of its moral bankruptcy. The latest attempt by Microsoft to "comply" with Chinese anti-human-rights laws confirms what I just indicated.

    Note, too, that in March and April of this year, hordes of Chinese animals rampaged throughout China and demanded that Tokyo apologize for the "complicity" of today's Japanese in 60-year-old atrocities.

    Now, the Chinese animals are totally silent when Microsoft complies with Beijing's laws by removing the word "democracy". Where are the Chinese animals? Why are they silent?

    Why are the animals silent when Beijing refuses to apologize even once to Rebiya Kadeer for imprisoning her (a 60-year-old grandmother) for the "crime" of giving publicly available newspapers to some American friends?

    Why are the animals silent when Beijing suppresses democracy?

    Why are the animals silent? Such is the nature of Chinese people. The problem is not merely Beijing. The problem is Chinese society.

  3. Re:So some creative misspelling... by BandwidthHog · · Score: 1, Troll

    No, in the South they add extra syllables to the vowels, pronounce a trailing '-a' as '-er' and just generally mush unwanted consonants together, so they soun-- oh, you meant the South of China, didn't you?

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    Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
  4. Bill Zedong by Zuperdominican · · Score: 0, Troll

    You guys knew this was coming. They just announced a while back that they were removing the My from My computer now they ban democracy, soon it will be our computer

  5. I for one, by mbkennel · · Score: 1, Troll

    "I, for one and speaking for MicroWalSoftxxon Corp, welcome our new Chinese Communist overlords."
    -- Steve Ballmer.

    don't moderate this as "Funny" either

  6. Re:Seen on a chinese website... by davew2040 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Don't you mean, "crick heal fole owl dairy speciare on democlacy!"?