If Naz! Germany was still around...

... would MS help shut down Jewish journalist in the name of "following local laws" ?

Beijing's New Enforcer: Microsoft

Microsoft has silenced a well-known blogger in China for committing journalism. At the Chinese government's request, the company closed the blog of Zhao Jing on Dec. 30 after he criticized the government's firing of editors at a progressive newspaper...

All that is required for evil to triumph...

Perhaps now we will see if Bill can reconcile this with his "Person of the Year" award.

He's lucky they didn't send him to a work camp or jail.

Who is China, when he's at home?  Who is Microsoft?


There are work-arounds that  Zhao Jing  could employ - if he had a Hotmail account he could write his thoughts and save them as a draft, then you could access the very same account and publish his blog under your name in Ohio.

They will if they think 'it's better to be there with our services than not be there', whatever, Yahoo and MS both are an accessory only if the fact is a crime, it's forgivable, but I can not find the reason don't to hate the communist government, when I was young, they teachs me that China is better than USA much, because there are tons of homeless, hungry and poor American, and a prevailing racism country, of course I believed that, also I don't care about that, but there one thing the government teached me that does shake my little heart, they said American don't care about their family, and parents love money more than their children. On the contrary, my parents treat me well, so I feeling I am living in the best place in the world. Unfortunately, We are growing up, and I found my childhood dream is different from reality, the government lied to me more than ten years with a ugly lie, so I can not find the reason don't to hate the government.

As I've said before:

Good for Microsoft.

It's both unethical and immoral for them to oppose the law in China.

Was a new thread necessary? We seem to have a perfectly good existing thread on the topic...

Michael Griffiths wrote:

As I've said before:

Good for Microsoft.

It's both unethical and immoral for them to oppose the law in China.

In China, people are resoures and a tool for furthering the ideals of the few that lead the country. The methods used don't care about nor want to take personal privacy, needs or desires into consideration.

That attitude is extended to companies that do business with China, in varying degrees. So if Microsoft were to go against them over a 'relatively' minor issue, such as this, they would be cained by China and the results would be unknown and probably not protect the individual at the centre of the situation.

Perhaps it is also that Microsoft has not yet found a way to deal with China on things like this that enables them to get away with saying no to China. Maybe the next time something similar happens Microsoft won't back down.

Who knows. We have no way of knowing what tides and currents are at play. China is a monster and sleeping dragon.