MSN and Yahoo Agree To Censorship!

MSN and Yahoo have admitted to agreeing to censor their users FREE SPEECH according to directives laid down by the Chinese government.

And what's even worse, they've agreed to keep track of people's REAL identities so that the Chinese authorities can take action against those who violate the censorship rules!

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070824172813.nxh2cvmq&show_article=1

US Internet giants Yahoo and MSN confirmed Friday they had signed a code of conduct for their blogging operations in China that committed them to protecting the interests of the Chinese state.


Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN and other blog providers in China this week signed the "self-discipline" pact, under which they pledged to "safeguard state and public interests," according to a statement from the China Internet Society.

The pact "encourages" the Internet firms to register the real names, addresses and other personal details of the bloggers, and then keep this information.

The firms also committed to delete any "illegal or bad messages", according to a copy of the pact posted on the society's website.

Along with sex and violence, China's communist rulers have also deemed that opinions critical of it or the spreading of democratic ideology are not allowed.

Yahoo China and MSN told AFP they had signed the pact, but did not give any further comment.

"I can confirm that we signed the pact this week," Yahoo China's Beijing-based spokesman Dou Xiaohan said.

MSN China spokesman Feng Jinhu said: "We've signed the pact but there is no press release on that. On your other questions, we will get back to you as soon as possible."

US Internet companies such as Yahoo, Microsoft and Google have previously caused uproar abroad for bowing to the Chinese government's demands by agreeing to censor websites and content banned by the nation's propaganda chiefs.

They have repeatedly insisted that they have no choice but to follow local rules and regulations in China.

Yahoo came under particular criticism for cooperating with requests by China to pass on personal information of its users, leading to the jailing of several cyber-dissidents.

International press freedom group Reporters Without Borders condemned Yahoo and MSN for agreeing to the blogging pact. "The Chinese government has yet again forced Internet sector companies to cooperate on sensitive issues. In this case blogger registration and blog content," it said in a statement.

 

And you don't seem to know what the word "Censorship" means, nor what it implies for a society. I guess you don't realize you're attacking the webmaster of a FREE-SPEECH site yet you don't get the irony of your own words.

I didn't even WRITE the article above, idiot.

What is YOUR interest in this, and WHY did this article affect YOU?

Would you CENSOR this article?

Why?

To answer your question, once these companies perfect their censorship algorithms, they will then be in the US gov't's hands as well, ready to be used, if they aren't already being used (just to monitor at this point).

Why are we giving the Chinese our LATEST DATA MINING TECHNIQUES?

That is the stupidest thing business could do from a security standpoint.

And that's just the start... I could go on. You need to use your imagination. US corporations certainly are. They own your internet information already and buy and sell it daily.