Microsoft Censors Chinese Blogger

wooppp writes "Microsoft has admitted to removing the blog of a Chinese journalist from MSN Spaces. The censored site has been re-hosted elsewhere after a short down-time, but is no longer accessible to the folks in China." From the ZDNet article: "MSN is committed to ensuring that products and services comply with global and local laws, norms and industry practices. Most countries have laws and practices that require companies providing online services to make the Internet safe for local users. Occasionally, as in China, local laws and practices require consideration of unique elements..."

Comments

What about PIRACY laws

[MillenneumMan]

Is the Chinese government taking an equally aggressive stand within their own country to eliminate piracy of software, music, and video?

Slashdot editors do this

[wombatmobile]

Reminds me of the message I got last time I tried to post here:

Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner . If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email moderation@slashdot.org

Re:Slashdot editors do this

[amightywind]

And I thought I was the only one. As you well know the slashdot priesthood promotes the following political views:

• Pro-democrat
• Anti-Bush
• Pro-Apple
• Pro-stem cell research
• Anti-religion
• Pro-crank science
• Pro-anime
• Pro-Python
• Pro-Ruby
• Increasingly pro-Microsoft

Others? Cross them on any of these on a regular basis and you will get that nasty message.

Re:Company ethics

[BadanTheUgly]

Wouldn't it be terrible if people in other parts of the world had to submit to the laws of a foreign country "where freedom ... is the core of the belief"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helms-Burton_Act