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Bloggers Test New MS China Filter

Posted by Zonk on from the free-as-in-freedom dept.

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."

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  1. And? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    China is a sovereign nation. China is fully within her rights to say what her citizens are allowed to say on line and what they're not.

    Why are you getting so hot and bothered about this?

    I couldn't care less.