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> Is money more important than democracy, freedom and human rights?

We'll see...they indicate they will follow up: "An RSF spokesman said Monday the group was checking to see if Microsoft had followed suit." It's still quarter to six in Redmond...too early to wake up Mr. Bill.

[ThanhPhero]

The reality is that the services will be available in China that the government permits. It is, after all, still a Communist regime of sorts. Refusing to allow that service at all, because it is not as free as we think it should be merely shuts off the people from great quantities of "non-political" content that conveys in great gouts the attitudes and freedoms of the West.The continued use of the net, restricted as it is, promotes the attitudes that will eventually cause the restrictions to evanesce or to become irreleant.

And I do think that it is better that American companies, even the hated Microsoft, step in now to make the money than that the Chinese come up with their own and cut the American companies out. That would be much more restrictive and longer lasting.