It’s one thing to use your near-monopoly in a market to play hardball with competitors, it’s quite another to be a lickspittle to tyranny to enhance your bottom line.
Some background: As reported by The Associated Press, bloggers that use the MSN Spaces section of Microsoft’s new Chinese Web portal and type in words like “democracy,” “freedom” and “human rights” are immediately hit with a message that says:
“Prohibited language in text, please delete.”
You don’t know whether to laugh or cry ” at the sheer hamfistedness of the Chinese government (does anybody really believe that a country run this way can become, and remain, a dominant player in the world economy in the 21st century?) or the sheer cynicism of Microsoft for allowing this to happen.
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