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Microsoft's Democracy Problem

Kyle Andrew [PersonRank 1]

Monday, July 18, 2005
19 years ago

From the Herald Tribune:

In early June, Chinese trying to create blogs on a Microsoft-hosted service using words like "democracy," "freedom" or "human rights" in the title received this message: "The title must not contain prohibited language, such as profanity. Please type a different title."
  
More insidious than the open restriction on the blogging site is the invisible but fine mesh of censorship that China has installed – with assistance from leading Western firms.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/08/opinion/edmckinnon.php

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