Via CNN.com

Bloggers in China using the new blogging service, MSN Spaces, by Microsoft are being censored by the Chinese government.

Users of the MSN Spaces section of Microsoft Corp.’s new China-based Web portal get a scolding message each time they input words deemed taboo by the communist authorities — such as democracy, freedom and human rights.

“Prohibited language in text, please delete,” the message says.

I find it both strange and amazing that companies like Microsoft can conduct business operations in countries that are so oppressive. I’m not blaming Microsoft, I just think that it’s strange in this day and age to have governments such as China trying to advance it’s culture through technology and capitalism and yet behave so primitively. It’s like building a 2 million dollar house, furnishing it with the best furniture money can buy but not allowing anyone to sit on it or use it.

As if not allowing people to say “democracy” will somehow make it not exist or make them less eager to have it.

Via CNN.com

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