Microsoft bans 'democracy' for China web users

[Monroe, Dave]

Yeah, we--"we" not as in "us," but as in "The U.S."--allegedly promote both
democracy and capitalism, but when the former gets in the way of the latter,
well ... but what I found particulaly interesting was that this was straight
from a Microsoft site ...

-----Original Message-----
From: rich [mailto:richard.romeo at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 1:18 PM
To: Monroe, Dave
Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: Microsoft bans 'democracy' for China web users


welcome to another example of corporate fascism. while bill gates
thinks he's saving the world his company didn't support pro-gay
legislation in their home state and now crap like this

rich

On 6/14/05, Monroe, Dave <monroe at mpm.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> Microsoft bans 'democracy' for China web users 
> Financial Times 
> All Financial Times News 
> 
> Microsoft's new Chinese internet portal has banned the words "democracy"
and
> "freedom" from parts of its website in an apparent effort to avoid
offending
> Beijing's political censors.

[...]

>
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?feed=FT&Date=2
0050610&ID=4884671
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