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June 16, 2005
Rebecca tried to create a Chinese language MSN Spaces blog with the title "I love freedom of speech, human rights, and democracy" in Chinese and got the error message "You must enter a title for your space. The title must not contain prohibited language, such as profanity. Please type a different title." She's got screenshots, and links to Bennet Haselton's Freedom Hack Instructions. (I blogged about Microsoft's enabling of Chinese censorship here.) [Technorati tags: GlobalVoices china blogs microsoft] Posted
by D. Weinberger at June 16, 2005 11:25 PM
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A letter-based/kinda phonic language like English gives much more fr**d*m to evade cnsrshp. And that's a good thing, although I don't always think so when my spam filter passes on email regarding my "pen 1s."
Posted by: Betsy Devine | June 17, 2005 08:41 AM
The Chinese should learn from the Bush Administration. Reframe freedom of speech, human rights, and democracy so that they are euphemisms for Secret Service chill, the Patriot Act and non-transparent election processes, and few will be the wiser. The bad press can be easily handled by a bad press.
And bloggers on the internetworks? (or internets, take your pick) They merely make the job of the Secret Service easier by self-identifying.
Posted by: Mark Federman | June 17, 2005 10:21 AM