Korean Job Discussion Forums

[igotthisguitar]

Microsoft Helps China Censor Bloggers
By Jonathan Watts in Beijing
The Guardian - UK
6-15-5

Civil liberties groups have condemned an arrangement between Microsoft and Chinese authorities to censor the internet.

The American company is helping censors remove "freedom" and "democracy" from the net in China with a software package that prevents bloggers from using these and other politically sensitive words on their websites.

The restrictions, which also include an automated denial of "human rights", are built into MSN Spaces, a blog service launched in China last month by Shanghai MSN Network Communications Technology, a venture in which Microsoft holds a 50% stake.

Users who try to include such terms in subject lines are warned: "This topic contains forbidden words. Please delete them."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1506601,00.html

[Real Reality]

An American company is helping censors remove "freedom" and "democracy."

That says it all.

[MixtecaMike]

Thank god we are in the "Hub of NE Asia" (TM) where they would never censor blogs.

[Demophobe]

MS is trying really hard to get inroads into China, the worst of all piracy-loving countries. Inroads diplomatically means pleasing the government. In China, the best way to do that is to play ball with them.

[VanIslander]

This is the same Microsoft company that "opps" accidentally sold software with backdoors that could secretly infringe on the privacy of all users.

[Demophobe]