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Microsoft Shuts Down Chinese Blog

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Monday, January 9th, 2006 | Related entries: Internet

Microsoft Logo Microsoft has shut down the Internet journal of a Chinese blogger who discussed politically sensitive issues, including a recent strike at a Beijing newspaper.

The action came in the course of criticism by free-speech activists of foreign technology companies that help the communist government enforce censorship or silence dispute in order to be allowed into China’s market.

According to Brooke Richardson, group product manager with Microsoft’s MSN online division at company headquarters in Redmond, Microsoft’s Web log-hosting service shut down the blog at the Chinese government’s request.

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One Response to “Microsoft Shuts Down Chinese Blog”

  1. WordPresser.net Says:

    blog-zensur - microsoft beugt sich china

    Microsoft hat den Blog eines chinesischen Journalisten auf seinen US-Servern des MSN Spaces gelöscht. Angeblich, so die offizielle Begründung, erfolgte die Löschung deshalb, damit der gesamte MSN-Spaces-Dienst den lokalen Gesetzen in China entspric…

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