Monday, June 13, 2005
Internet Censorship
Microsoft joins Yahoo!, Google in censoring China's web
"Users of Microsoft's new China-based Internet portal were blocked from using the words 'democracy', 'freedom' and 'human rights' in an apparent move by the US software giant to appease Beijing.Sad sad that global internet companies such as these would agree to effectively censor the internet to appease a communist government. It does not bode well for the future of free unfettered worldwide communication across the internet. What happens when another government asks a Google, or a Microsoft to censor some other aspect of their internet domain? Then what? It's a slippery slope.
Other words that could not be used on Microsoft's free online blog service MSN Spaces include 'Taiwan independence' and 'demonstration'.
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Microsoft is not the only international tech company to comply with China's stringent Internet rules.
Yahoo! and Google -- the two most popular Internet search engines -- have already been criticized for cooperating with the Chinese government to censor the Internet."
posted by digitaljay @ 11:46 AM MST
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