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 Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 8:23 am Post subject: Dirty Words in China |
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Chinese Target Web's 'Prohibited Language'
Chinese bloggers, even on foreign-sponsored sites, had better choose their words carefully -- the censors are watching. Users of the MSN Spaces section of Microsoft Corp.'s new China-based Web portal get a scolding message each time they input words deemed taboo by the communist authorities -- such as democracy, freedom and human rights.
"Prohibited language in text, please delete," the message says.
However, the restrictions appear to apply only to the subject line of such entries. Writing them into the text, with a more innocuous subject heading, seems to be no problem. Online tests found that apart from politically sensitive words, obscenities and sexual references also are banned.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050615/ap_on_hi_te/china_microsoft |
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