Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Chinese Target Web's 'Prohibited Language'

""Prohibited language in text, please delete," the message says.

However, the restrictions appear to apply only to the subject line of such entries. Writing them into the text, with a more innocuous subject heading, seems to be no problem.

Microsoft's Chinese staff could not be reached immediately for comment. However, a spokesman at the tech giant's headquarters in Seattle acknowledged that the company is cooperating with the Chinese government to censor its Chinese-language Web portal."
Yahoo
This whole issue reminds me of IBM helping the Nazis build and run computers to help make list of Jews. How does Gates sleep at night. I just hope that this software is as reliable as all windows software is.

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