Microsoft Blogger Condemns Company for Censorship

INFORMATION WEEK -- Jan 3 -- Microsoft employee Robert Scoble publicly excoriated his own company for allegedly taking down the MSN Spaces blog of a controversial Chinese journalist. "It's one thing to pull a list of words out of blogs using an algorithm. It's another thing to become an agent of a government and censor an entire blogger's work," Scoble wrote on his blog. Scoble based his post on one by former CNN reporter Rebecca MacKinnon, which noted that the Chinese blogger, Zhao Jing, has had his site taken down--apparently by MSN Spaces itself. 

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