I guess corporate profits are more important than freedom.
Chinese bloggers who use Microsoft's new Chinese-language Web portal will have to watch what they say.(snark)But, but, but ... it's a BIG market (/snark)
There are reports that users of the MSN Spaces service face restrictions on certain words, such as "freedom", "democracy" and "human rights."
Agence France-Presse said bloggers who attempted to use those words were said to generate a message saying the language was prohibited.
"This message contains a banned expression, please delete this expression," the pop-up warning reads.
MSN marketing director Adam Sohn confirmed that Microsoft was working with the Chinese government to censor language, but did not give examples.
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