SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft has bowed to the whims of the Chinese government and banned the words 'democracy','freedom' from parts of its Chinese website. According to the Financial Times, the move is designed to avoid offending Beijing's political censors who apparently don’t like such words. Users of MSN have been blocked from using a range of potentially sensitive words to label personal websites they create using online blogs. If you try to label blogs with words in Chinese such as 'democracy' you will get an error message from the site which kindly tells you that 'This item contains forbidden speech. Please delete the forbidden speech from this item.' Apparently other non-words that Vole has kindly removed include the Chinese for 'demonstration', 'democratic movement' and 'Taiwan independence'. You can use such words within blogs created using MSN Spaces, just not in the titles, so it is not a total ban yet. I just can't understand the minds for the chinese politicians. What do they find so offensive about these words or ideas. Retards IMHO.
The Chinese are set in their Communistic ways and the leaders are happy there, but they know if ideas of democracy are spread around the people and they like it, revolution could happen and overthrow the political power. It would be disasterous for them, revolution never does wonders for a country's standing.
This is no big deal, all companies dealing in China do the same thing. If you look up Google you'll notice they put restrictions on the Chinese website as well. If a comapny doesn't do this China will block their websites out through the countries firewall and there goes a potential billion customers for that company.
