China is censoring bloggers with the help of Microsoft

[thecoalman]

I don't work "just" for money,

I do, what's the point otherwise. People that don't work for money usaully don't need it. Having said that anybody out there that wants to work for free you start Monday.... amd you'll quit on Tuesday.

[garman]

This is a company that comes from the free world and turn around and assist another country to do the opposite.

So what is it you suggest they do? The article isn't very clear but let's assume it's just standard filter on blogging software because that's what it sounds like to me. :P Should they remove it thereby losing a customer who will just switch to someone else who will provide software that they require. In all fairness if they were going to deny China software with word filters then they should do the same for all their other customers. If MS is selling this software to someone else such as site children frequent should they then too have the ability to filter words removed?

Here's my take on this article..... You have a reporter who threw in MS's name for the shock value so it gets sucked up by the public. Unfortunately this seems to be the norm in today's news reporting. Again under the assumption this is just standard software would you have the same reaction if it said "Microsoft software used to block children from using the f-word while blogging"? Oh, the horror.

You may be right, it may be a simple filtering program. But... due to China's history on human rights and now as a corporate power with more money than ever before, don't you think they'll request to have MS make drastic changes to thier filter process.
I think it's the same as selling arms to a Country like North Korea, I know it's illegal, it may threaten the entire world but if Lockheed Martin says no to NK, they will go somewhere else. Let's say they LM sells these weapons and NK uses it on South Korea, do you not think the LM is responsible, knowing the history of NK. -garman

[thecoalman]

due to China's history on human rights and now as a corporate power with more money than ever before, don't you think they'll request to have MS make drastic changes to thier filter process.

I don't understand why this so hard to comprehend, you type the word in the box and it filters it. Plain and simple, as I said you can download premade lists and add them in mass. It's all database driven so simply importing a table will add all the words at once....

The text above says:

Word Censoring
From this control panel you can add, edit, and remove words that will be automatically censored on your forums. In addition people will not be allowed to register with usernames containing these words. Wildcards (*) are accepted in the word field. For example, *test* will match detestable, test* would match testing, *test would match detest.