Monday, January 09, 2006
Microsoft has shut down a blog that discussed politically sensitive issues, such as China's relationship with Taiwan.
Microsoft says its Weblog hosting service shut down the blog at the Chinese government's request. A spokesman for Microsoft's M-S-N online division says the company has to comply with global laws as well as local laws and norms.
The censorship move was first publicized by Rebecca MacKinnon, a former Beijing Bureau Chief for CNN and current researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
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