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MSN: Microsoft bans ‘democracy’ for China web users

From MSN Money:

Microsoft’s new Chinese internet portal has banned the words “democracy” and “freedom” from parts of its website in an apparent effort to avoid offending Beijing’s political censors…

Attempts to input words in Chinese such as “democracy” prompted an error message from the site: “This item contains forbidden speech. Please delete the forbidden speech from this item.”

• Posted by Sophie Beach
• June 10, 2005 7:45 PM
• Category: Information Revolution, Politics
• Tags: Internet censorship, msn

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