Microsoft's New Anti-Censorship Policy for Blogs
According to an article on Yahoo! News, Microsoft has formulated a new policy for censoring blogs following an incident where they removed a blog from MSN due to an order from a Chinese government agency.
The blog in question was Zhao Jing's, which used to live here on MSN.
That is tbe bad news. The good news is that, "going forward" ("air quotes" required), Microsoft says that, when prompted with a court order--and only then--they will remove a blog, but only in the country from which the takedown order originated!
This is wonderful news! As much as it pains and surprises me to say this, Microsoft has just taken a major pro-civil rights, anti-censorship stand. Bravo!I am starting to gain a lot of respect for Bill Gates The Humanitarian--I wonder how heavily his social views play into this decision? (In case you do not know what I mean, Bill was just named--along with his wife Belinda and some guy named Bono--Time Magazine's Man of the Year, and bloody deservedly so, in my opinion.
posted by Josh Glover @ 2/01/2006 12:02:00 AM
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Isn't internet porn banned in China as well?
Indeed it is, Todd. Kind of strange that leftists would be pro-family (</troll>), but Lyani says that the Communist Party was very much for sexual wholesomeness.
As a complete aside, the verification word I had to enter to prove to Blogger that I am not a Spambot was "rokkk". That could be taken as either an affirmation of Death Metal (anti-family!) or the Neo-Nazi movement (racist!). What has the world come to, when Politics Schmolitics has become a racist, anti-family rag!
I quit.
Good riddins to bad rubbish, I say!
(And, for the record, my verification word was "lrplgnq".)
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