Comments on: Microsoft blocking words on China's Web?

Software giant is reportedly excluding controversial phrases like "democracy" and "freedom" on Chinese version of MSN.

All I can say

is MSN - fur queue

[Earl Benser]

The truth shall set you free....

... except when MS is collaborating with the dictatorship.

Goebbels would have loved the phrase 'forbidden speech',
maybe he was the one who thought it up.

Anyhow, stupid attempts like this to control communications by
the Chinese government just proves the need for a new
government in China. After all, Mao was tossed once there
wasn't a serious enemy to fight. Now we have the Paranoid Party
in charge who quake at any mention of Taiwanese
independance, when they are already independant.

[technewsjunkie]

ANYTHING for a buck and marketshare

"Democracy" banned?
"Freedom"?!

A new low in coporate ethics.

[TanNg]

Not new but old

>>>A new low in coporate ethics.

Because Google and Yahoo did it before, what MS does is old low.

This is sickening

Another corporation from the Land of the Free cooperating in censorship with the communist regime in China. Sickening! It's not very long ago that this would have been unheard of from an American company, and unacceptable in the view of American public opinion. But it seems that the trend toward profits over principals is continuing at a very fast pace.

It wasn't long ago, as well, that our own government finally caved in to pressure from the business sector to open trade with China without regard to protection of human rights. Previously the U.S. government had been adamant in the requirement for human rights protections, but eventually gave in to the constant $alavating by the business interests who kept saying, "But look at the size of that market".

And it's interesting, too, that when Apple announced that they are switching to Intel there were numerous c/net articles and hundreds of posts on these message boards. But this article so far has five posts. To borrow Roger Water's phrase, I think we've become "comfortably numb" in regard to concern for and standing up for human rights.