Ouch.

By Sheepdog (via Rebecca)

UPDATE: AsiaPundit is pleased that the Anti-Microsoft story is gaining legs, being picked up today in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the UK’s Daily Telegraph and the Red Herring. Hopefully the attention will prompt the company to issue a more substantial explanation than it’s earlier one-paragraph “making the Internet safe” statement.

UPDATE 2: Further reading from the Blogosphere:

Imagethief talks about Microsoft’s public relations problem and its corporate social responsibility.

ESWN argues that Microsoft’s censoring of Michael Anti is worse than Yahoo!’s complicity in the jailing of Shi Tao, plus more.

Rebecca, who really should be credited for bringing this to the world’s attention, offers a post on Isaac Mao’s anti MSN Spaces protest, translations from the Chinese blogosphere and her opinion on why this matters outside of China.

Jeremy at Danwei, who usually is quite tolerant of companies ‘lapses’ in China, says: Cherish Freedom: Stay far away from MSN Spaces.

Bingfeng argues that this should be expected of Microsoft, and the critics are naive.

From Internet Censorship Explorer, an argument that MSN should have fought this legally.

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