Microsoft helps China to censor bloggers

Jonathan Watts in Beijing
Copyright
Wednesday June 15, 2005
The Guardian

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.



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michael mccafferty comments:

Shame on Microsoft and Bill Gates for being in cahoots with the Communists in China to censor the Internet. The Communist Chinese are obviously very paranoid of the words 'freedom' and
'democracy'.

I believe it is just awful that Bill Gates and Microsoft would do anything to censor freedom on the Internet.