The blogosphere has been somewhat abuzz as of late over Microsoft’s unilateral decision to ban words and phrases such as ‘freedom,’ ‘liberty,’ and ‘democracy’ from its China blog service as a way to kowtow to the Chinese government.
A conversation with a friend of mine from Shanghai who is studying in America, brought the silliness of these measures home. She has an MSN blog that she registered while still in China. She recently tried to add the year 1989 in her profile (I still haven’t figured out why), which she soon discovered was impossible. So, even in Philadelphia, 1989 never happened?!
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June 28th, 2005 at 2:39 pm
Daily linklets 28th June
Colin Powell puts China’s military build-up into realistic contexts. Happy blogday, Mia. The big risks of China’s looming power shortages. The relevant point is when energy, like any good, is allocated by fiat rather than by markets, you get a literal…