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A Reaction to Microsoft CensorshipPosted by Joel Martinsen, June 17, 2005 4:31 PM
Inspired by an earlier Danwei post, here is a translation of a Chinese IT professional's thoughts on Microsoft and censorship: It was an average weekend day that became one of the most unsual in my whole life. On that day, I sent two documents to 8 websites and media entities with whom I had a long relationship. Two hours later, my documents were published, most of them as featured articles. A couple of hours later they had mysteriously vanished. When I contacted the editors, I found out that Microsoft reacts quickly on the weekends, too; their public relations people worked the media and exerted pressure. If there was no effect, they employed special human relations to completely censor all of my articles. I worked to resurrect my documents, and at the same time copied all of the relevant information about this case into a file.This was written by BlogChina founder Fang Xingdong after he had attempted in July, 2002, to post essays entitled I surrender to Microsoft and Why Microsoft? to various portals on the web. Of course, at the time Microsoft was only working in the interest of its shareholders, and not at the behest of an evil regime. Link (in Chinese): Tom Tech Channel
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