Update (12/5): New stuff!
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What does the head-geek-in-charge think he’s doing? Censoring Chinese bloggers just like communist China does? What goes on here?
Microsoft’s MSN Spaces is censoring bloggers. American blogger Rebecca MacKinnon has the scoop:
On December 16th I created a blog and attempted to make various posts with politically sensitive words. When I attempted to post entries with titles like “Tibet Independence†or “Falun Gong†(a banned religious group), I got an error message saying: “This item includes forbidden language. Please delete forbidden language from this item.â€
However I was successful in posting blog entries with non-controversial titles, but with politically sensitive words in the text body. For instance, a blog post titled “I love you†had “Tibet independence†in the text body, and a post titled “I am happy†had “Falun Gong†in the body, like so…
Bill, your innovative work with the personal computer was revolutionary and made possible by living in a country that allows a free market system and free expression of ideas. Pay attention to what’s going on in your company and stop the censorship now!
Related:
- How Beijing Censors the Blogosphere
- China’s web censors struggle to muzzle free-spirited bloggers
- Chinese Blogosphere: Year in Review
Everyone here knows the Scobleizer, right? Oh…just us business bloggers? OK. He works for Microsoft and adds his views to the discussion.
