Microsoft Censors Chinese Blogger

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 6, 2006 @01:36AM from the getting-in-good-with-the-new-boss dept.

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..."

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Re:Yeah... by sgt_doom · 2006-01-06 04:01 · Score: 0, Troll

Of course, if Microsoft (or Google or Yahoo) existed around World War II, they would have lovingly welcomed a visit from Adolph Hitler to their respective campuses in the hopes of doing business with him.
The corpacracy is running the show and is to be despised. If any vestige of human freedom is to remain they - the corporations - will ultimately have to be destroyed - along with all other dictatorial entities. No person should have power over another - and no person should come under anyone else's power. The "Holy Bible" is the widest and longest selling publication of S & M. With the Old Testament being the sadism and the new testament being the masochism.