Microsoft Shuts Down a Blog in China  You may also like...  1
Response    1. Chris Farris says:      “This action by Microsoft
infringed upon my freedom of speech.”      So are we talking the
freedom of speech as provided by the PRC constitution, or by the
Republic of Microsoft. :)      Seriously, digging a bit futher
the article states:      “The MSN Spaces sites are maintained on
computer servers in the United States.”      Well, that is more
disturbing. If I as an American citizen say something negative
about the PRC, will my blog be taken offline too?      What the
article doesn’t make clear is if the blog was deleted from a
global MSN Spaces or a Chinese MSN Spaces. If they deleted the
blog from a global service – that is really bad.      However,
if they deleted it from a Chinese service – that just happened
to locate the servers physically in the US – while that is bad,
it is SOP for doing business in repressive countries. Overall I
think the long term connectivity companies like Yahoo, Google
and Micr