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Okay, let's get started. Today's podcast is titled Microsoft's Cyber... Let's

cyber censorship. This is from Amnesty International.

In December 2005, Microsoft cooperated with Chinese authorities to shut down the controversial

blog of Joao Jing, Michael Anti, a Beijing-based researcher for the New York Times, and an active critic of censorship

in China.

The blog, which was hosted on servers located in the United States, was removed and was therefore censored not only in

China but globally.

Reacting to criticism, Microsoft claims to have implemented a new set of standards to ensure that they will only remove blogs when they receive formal legal notice from the Chinese government

and that access will only be denied to users in China.

Microsoft search engine, MSN China,

filters the results of searches for politically sensitive terms,

displaying a message in Chinese which states,

certain content was removed from the results of this search.

Searches undertaken in June 2006 by Amnesty International produced this message for the words

Thalungong, Tibetan Independence and June 4 the date of the Tiananmen Square

massacre. Furthermore Microsoft has admitted that it responds to directions from the Chinese government

by restricting users of MSN spaces from using certain terms in their account name, space name, in Asserts that MSN spaces do not filter blog content in any way. Amnesty International

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