Users of the [Chinese] joint-venture portal, formally launched last month, have been blocked from using a range of potentially sensitive words to label personal websites they create using its free online blog service, MSN Spaces.
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." Other phrases banned included the Chinese for "demonstration", "democratic movement" and "Taiwan independence".
I like the expression for this:
ReplyDeleteThe Great Firewall of China
There was a Ford ad on a few years ago that said something like "we here at Ford are always working to achieve Henry Ford's dream."
ReplyDeleteAn America free from Jews? I wondered.
For many years, Ford distributed an anti-semitic publication through its dealerships. Hitler and Ford even had each others photos in their offices.
The cult of profit tends to erode the moral authority to combat hegemonic ideologies.
Hey, at least they didn't block "Linux"...
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