[news] Microsoft joins hands with Yahoo!, Google to censor China's web

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Agence France Presse | June 13, 2005 Users of Microsoft's new China-based Internet portal have been blocked from using the words "democracy", "freedom" and "human rights" in an apparent move by the US software giant to appease Beijing. Other words that could not be used on Microsoft's free online blog service MSN Spaces include "Taiwan independence" and "demonstration".

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/17/111120/590