Bloggers Test New MS China Filter

earthbound kid writes "Rebecca MacKinnon at Global Voices Online has set up a test of Microsoft's censored blogs on MSN China (see previous Slashdot story) with screenshots. It seems that MSN rejected titling a new blog 'I love freedom of speech, human rights, and democracy' (in Chinese) because 'The title must not contain prohibited language, such as profanity.' MacKinnon managed to use a workaround and got a pro-freedom blog up, for the moment."

Comments

hmmmmmmmmmm

[Spy der Mann]

Why not use pornsites' tactics in here?

Like for example, "dmeocarcy" instead of "democracy", "frit psot" instead of well youknow, etc?

Re:hmmmmmmmmmm

[beakerMeep]

how do you write "dmeocarcy" in chinese?

Re:hmmmmmmmmmm

[Stanistani]

Semes liek ah gud idae ta mee, altho sum peeple fur whmo egnlish iz ah secund langwidge maht hab sum prolbems reeding sucth obfiscated txt.

Re:hmmmmmmmmmm

[Rude Turnip]

The English language has a similar dependency upon capitalization. For example, in English, these two sentences, although containing the same words, have different meanings through the use of differing punctuation:

1. I must help my Uncle Jack off the horse.
2. I must help my uncle jack off the horse.

There's a plot hole in the workaround article:

[sixteenraisins]

IF YOU DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH:

* You must have a HotMail account...


Isn't writing these instructions in English a bit like having drive-up ATM's in Braille?

Re:censoring

[Anonymous Coward]

What about those kids who got in trouble with the SS (secret service) when the sang a parody of a song, containing words "kill" and "clinton", etc?

They're still rotting in Gitmo. Many people don't know, but I have from reliable sources (on the INTERNET) that Gitmo holds not only prisoners of war, but thousand of aliens. I'm not talking bout 'foreign people' but real life space aliens, you know like the kind you saw on that Fox special a couple of years back.

BTW, I have a spot 'in my business' for an intellectual enterprising young man such as yourself just send $19.95 to:

I'm a freaking fool
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Springfield, USA 123456

I Loev Mircosoeft

[monsterX]

Sorry for the spelling, I had to get past the slashdot profanity filters.

Typical Chinese blog post after MSN China....

[digitaldc]

(the following is an actual post after being censored and released for public consumption)
~April 17~
Last year, Zhyang and I went to visit New York in America, the land of xxxxxxx. We had a xxxxxx time! We learned so much about xxxxxxxx and xxxxxxx, we realized it was a xxxxxxx country. We even got so see the Statue of xxxxxxxxxx. I want to tell all my fellow citizens to xxxxxxxx as soon as they get to xxxxxxxx. There, a person will translate English for you and give you xxxxxx. They also know alot about Microsoft and their products, they even have legal copies to purchase and take home.
Come back next week and learn more about my trip to Amsterdam in Holland! You won't believe all the xxxxxxxxxxxxxx there!
-Yao