16 June, 2005

interesting e-mail

Stephen just sent me this via e-mail.  I won’t read it until tomorrow but it has something to do with Microsoft, censorship and circumventing. Tell me if it’s useful.

How To Hack Chinese MSN Spaces to Use Banned Words

Filed under: General,
Tools
, China — Rebecca MacKinnon @ 11:25 pm

Thanks to Bennett Haselton of Peacefire.org
for the following public service instructions for Chinese users wanting
to circumvent the word filters on MSN Spaces China to put e.g.
"democracy" in the title of their blogs.

If somebody would like to translate these instructions into Chinese,
please feel free to do so, post the translation on your blog or
website, and please give us the link in the "comments" section of this
post. Alternatively, if you don’t have a blog or website, you can post
the whole translation directly into the "comments" section.

Also, if you’re in China and try this, if you have problems,
questions, or if it doesn’t work, please also let us know in the
"comments" section.

——————————————————————–

How to put banned Chinese words in the title of a blog on MSN Spaces China

Even though you can use these instructions to insert banned words into the title of your Chinese blog, Internet access in China is still monitored and controlled by the government. If you use these instructions to post banned material, you should not publish your blog from an Internet terminal where your actions could be traced back to you personally, and you should not publish anything on your blog that could be used to identify you. You should also use a \nHotMail.com address that doesn\’t identify you by your real name (create a new HotMail.com account if necessary).

\n

To use these instructions, you will need to create a new MSN Spaces account. Unfortunately these instructions cannot be used to remove the filter settings from an existing blog. If you have already created an MSN Spaces account using your \nMSN.com or HotMail.com address, you will also need to create a new MSN.com or HotMail.com address, since each existing \nMSN.com or HotMail.com address can only be associated with one MSN Spaces account.

\n

To create a blog where you can post banned Chinese words in the title:

\n

IF YOU SPEAK ENGLISH:

\n

\n
  • \n
  • If you speak English, go to “,1]
    );

    //–>WARNING!
    Even though you can use these instructions to insert banned words into
    the title of your Chinese blog, Internet access in China is still
    monitored and controlled by the government. If you use these
    instructions to post banned material, you should not publish your blog
    from an Internet terminal where your actions could be traced back to
    you personally, and you should not publish anything on your blog that
    could be used to identify you. You should also use a HotMail.com address that doesn’t identify you by your real name (create a new HotMail.com account if necessary).

    To use these instructions, you will need to create a new MSN Spaces
    account. Unfortunately these instructions cannot be used to remove the
    filter settings from an existing blog. If you have already created an
    MSN Spaces account using your MSN.com or HotMail.com address, you will also need to create a new MSN.com or HotMail.com address, since each existing
    MSN.com or HotMail.com address can only be associated with one MSN Spaces account.

    To create a blog where you can post banned Chinese words in the title:

    IF YOU SPEAK ENGLISH:

    • If you speak English, go to http://spaces.msn.com/?mkt=en-us
      Use the English interface to create a new MSN Spaces blog. \n
    • Then once the blog has been created, go to the URL http://spaces.msn.com/?mkt=zh-cn to switch the interface back to Chinese. You can now publish your blog in Chinese and use banned Chinese words in the title. As long as your blog is *created* using the English interface, the word filter will not be applied. \n

\n

IF YOU DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH:

\n

  • \n
  • You must have a HotMail account. Create a new HotMail account if you don\’t already have one, then go to www.HotMail.com and sign in to your HotMail account. Make sure you are signed in before proceeding. \n
  • Go to this URL: http://spaces.msn.com/?mkt=en-us
    The interface will display in English. \n
  • Click the "Sign Up" button in the middle of the page. [Note: if this document is translated into Chinese, the words "Sign Up" should remain untranslated, since this is how the user will see the button.] \n
  • On the page where you enter settings for your new blog:
    In the field marked "1.", enter a title. You can enter banned words in the title here, or you can change the title later.
    In the field marked "2.", enter the URL you want.\n
    Leave "3." the way it is.
    In section "4.", check the checkbox (which indicates that you accept the MSN
    Terms of Service).
    In the bottom row, click the button on the left labeled "Create your space" [note, if this document is translated into Chinese, do not translate the words "Create your space"] to create your MSN Spaces account. \n”,1]
    );

    //–>http://spaces.msn.com/?mkt=en-us
    Use the English interface to create a new MSN Spaces blog.

  • Then once the blog has been created, go to the URL http://spaces.msn.com/?mkt=zh-cn
    to switch the interface back to Chinese. You can now publish your blog
    in Chinese and use banned Chinese words in the title. As long as your
    blog is *created* using the English interface, the word filter will not
    be applied.

IF YOU DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH:

\n

I spotted this at Global Voices Online and thought it might be of use to some of you in China.


Steven McDermott

\nwww.singabloodypore.blogspot.com

\n”,0]
);
D([”ce”]);
D([”ms”,”210″]
);

//–>

This will switch the interface back to Chinese. However, since you
*created* the blog using the English interface, the Chinese word filter
will still not be applied to the title of your blog.

I spotted this at Global Voices Online and thought it might be of use to some of you in China.

by myrick @ 11:00 pm. Filed under Blogs, China, Asia, East Asia, Northeast Asia, Censorship

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