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".

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:boid

Let's free iraq

Microsoft is not out to play politics, they are out to make money.

It's business.

its all that rice and fish getting to their heads.

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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