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Rantings of a Sandmonkey

Be forewarned: The writer of this blog is an extremely cynical, snarky, pro-US, secular, libertarian, disgruntled sandmonkey. If this is your cup of tea, please enjoy your stay here. If not, please sod off

Friday, June 17, 2005

Microsoft is for censorship!

I don't know if you guys heard of how Microsoft has to censor certain words in order to have a chinese protal in China, but if you didn't, now you do! For a prime example, please go here to see someone's first hand experience testing the chinese Microsoft computerized Internet censorship (screenshots incldued). It's a brave new world out there!

2 Comments:

At 6/17/2005 12:08:00 PM, Blogger programmer craig said...

Hmmm... I thought Bill Gates was the big time liberal humanitarian and defender of individual freedoms.

Guess not :p

 
At 6/19/2005 04:07:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Chinese people are clever, and the language lends itself to euphamism, big time. Banning 4 or 5 words is a consummate waste of time, and I'm betting Mr. Gates knows this.

 

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