MS bans 'democracy' and 'freedom' in their Chinese SE

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  • warlock5
    Confirmed User
    • Jan 2004
    • 2808
    #1

    MS bans 'democracy' and 'freedom' in their Chinese SE

    Microsoft's new Chinese internet portal has banned the words "democracy" and "freedom" from parts of its website in an apparent effort to avoid offending Beijing's political censors.

    Users of the joint-venture portal, formally launched last month, have been blocked from using a range of potentially sensitive words to label personal websites they create using its free online blog service, MSN Spaces.

    Attempts to input words in Chinese such as "democracy" prompted an error message from the site: "This item contains forbidden speech. Please delete the forbidden speech from this item." Other phrases banned included the Chinese for "demonstration", "democratic movement" and "Taiwan independence".

    http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/pro...610&ID=4884671

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    • Doctor Dre
      Too lazy to set a custom title
      • Jan 2001
      • 51692
      #2
      Let's free iraq
      Originally posted by rayadp05
      I rebooted, deleted temp files, history, cookies and everything...still cannot view the news clip. All I see is that fucking gay ass music video from "Rick Roll". Anyone else have a different link to the news clip?

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        • AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE
          best designer on GFY
          • Mar 2003
          • 30307
          #3
          Microsoft is not out to play politics, they are out to make money.

          It's business.

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            • nofx
              Too lazy to set a custom title
              • Nov 2002
              • 16826
              #4
              its all that rice and fish getting to their heads.

              Often times I wonder why
              There's love and hate, theres live or die.
              When sickness comes I must decide:
              When feelings go, theres suicide.

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                • PenisFace
                  Confirmed User
                  • Oct 2003
                  • 3774
                  #5
                  The problem with the word "Freedom" is that the Americans have bastardized it. Whenever anyone hears it now, they think of Bush and his shitty speeches and all the rednecks who wave the little flags at 200 mph at his compaign speeches.
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                    • pstation
                      Confirmed User
                      • Jul 2003
                      • 1135
                      #6
                      Originally posted by AlienQ
                      Microsoft is not out to play politics, they are out to make money.

                      It's business.
                      . .

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