Microsoft agrees, "democracy" is forbidden in China
Monday - 13Jun2005 Filed in: Free Markets&Headlines
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According to the Financial Times, Microsoft's censoring efforts are an attempt to avoid China's political powers that be. A couple of paragraphs stood out, but this one really caught my attention.
““MSN on Friday declined to comment directly on the ban on sensitive words, but its China joint venture said users of MSN Spaces were required to accept the service's code of conduct. "MSN abides by the laws and regulations of each country in which it operates," the joint venture said. The MSN Spaces code of conduct forbids the posting of content that "violates any local and national laws".
But while China's ruling Communist Party deals harshly with political dissenters, there is no Chinese law that bars the mere use of words such as democracy.””Posted: Mon - June 13, 2005 at 05:31 AM
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