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Chinese Blogs Censored on MSN Spaces

I haven't posted in a while about issues of freedom of expression with respect to blogs, but I just came across this article.  I thought is was worth disseminating. The Financial Times reports that Microsoft has created a joint venture with the Shanghai Alliance Investment (Sail), an investment fund of the Shanghai city government to offer its blogging platform MSN Spaces in China, a hosted blogging platform. MSN Spaces is run directly by the joint venture, Shanghai MSN Network Communications Technology, of which Microsoft own a 50 per cent share.

It will be impossible to write the following words on MSN Spaces in China:  democracy, freedom, demonstration, democratic movement or Taiwan independence, for instance. Click here to read the full article.

Here are what people are saying about this in the blogosphere. Read D. Weinberger's post, with links to other blogs and interesting debate with Microsoft's most famous blogger, Robert Scoble.  For a constantly updated list of blogs which are "tagged" Microsoft and China, click here.

posted by: howard at 12:22 | link | comments (9) |
blogosphere, international