MSN China No Place For Freedom Or Democracy

Chinese users of MSN Spaces, a blog service available through MSH China, find certain terms rejected by the portal. MSN China, a joint venture between Microsoft and Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd, will not let its Chinese visitors use certain words or terms for blog titles. Attempts to input words in Chinese such as "democracy" or "freedom" 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." The blocking, similar to what happens to users of Google and Yahoo in China, is an effort to mitigate here