Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Chinese Target Web's 'Prohibited Language'

Articles such as the one below make me appreciate my goodluck of being born in the US.
SHANGHAI, China - Chinese bloggers, even on foreign-sponsored sites, had better choose their words carefully — the censors are watching.
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. | read more: Yahoo! News

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