18 June, 2005

chinese bloggers on microsoft

Yesterday Jeremy at Danwei complained:

There are a lot of earnest people in the USA and UK complaining about Microsoft’s complicity with an evil regime etc.
But what about in China itself, inside the clammy embrace of the Nanny?
Nada.
It appears that nobody here gives a shit.

Rebecca corrects this assumption at Global Voices:

Chinese Bloggers on Censorship, MSN, Etc.
Filed under: China — Rebecca MacKinnon @ 6:52 pm
At CNBlog, Isaac says: “Don’t Use MSN Spaces, ” and creates a NoMSN Technorati tag for the boycott movement.
Kaihong posts a showing results similar to what I found: the blog’s title is filtered, but he was able to post sensitive words in the body of the blog.
Wangjianshuo (in English) describes the website registration process. He says his site is “almost legal in China,” and that the process so far has been surprisingly easy.

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