Microsoft Confirms Dropping Chinese Journalist's Blog

Techweb.com ^ | Jan 04, 2005 | Antone Gonsalves,

[twntaipan]

Interesting. Additional info about this story.

[pointsal]

no guts Billy Gates

[kingu]

Yet pedophiles can keep their blogs. Standards; they're for the little people.

[Modok]

Private property so Microsoft can do what it likes.

[coydog]

I smell a lawsuit in this. Wouldn't imposing different rules for Chinese blogs be... discriminatory? The only law US-based services need pay attention to is US law, period.

[Cacique]

Microsoft is in business to make money, NOT to promote democracy.

[twntaipan]

Perhaps.

But if there is significant blowback from democracy and freedom lovers, M$ has no one but themselves to blame.

[Uncle Fud]

Bump for future reference the next time I'm in a thread with one of the "Linux is a Chicom plot to destroy America" guys.

[JoJo Gunn]

ping

[newfarm4000n]

no guts Billy Gates

Yeah I guess he should courageously sacrifice SHAREHOLDERS harned earned money to make a point.

[newfarm4000n]

Microsoft is in business to make money, NOT to promote democracy.

AMEN !

[old-ager]

> Microsoft is in business to make money, NOT to promote democracy.

Microsoft is hosted by our country. They owe allegiance to our principals.

I presume you are a libertarian.

[Cacique]

Microsoft is a transnational corporation. They owe allegiance to their stockholders first, The countries where they do business second and our government last. The last time I looked this was a capitalist country. Corporations are in business to make money, period. If you want to promote democracy then you can if you wish promote some Choinese revolutionaries by giving them your money. However, you would fund that wopuld run counter to US foreign policy, which since the days of Nixon has believed that free trade is more important than promoting democracy in China.

[theFIRMbss]

>It's also not unusual for U.S. search engines, such as Google, Microsoft MSN, and Yahoo, to censor their Chinese-language search results at the request of the government

Sun hopes that Java technology will help China's software industry reach its full potential which leading analyst firms predict could see it rival the current regional software giant, India, by 2006. Sun Microsystems is playing a central role in helping to accelerate China's software industry development by delivering tools and support that will empower Java developers including recent support for the simplified Chinese language in both the NetBeans 3.5.1 release and in its Sun ONE Studio 5, Standard Edition product.

For many years now,
Sun has made a major push
to work with China.

Yet the left-wing fringe
attacks Microsoft when they
do usual things . . .

It's unfortunate
so many Freepers accept
Microsoft bashing.

[Jimbaugh]

Microsoft is in business to make money, NOT to promote democracy.

Those who sell out the US will wish they hadn't. Paybacks are a Bitch.

[clyde asbury]

MS owes allegiance to its principals, and the USA must uphold its principles.

[theFIRMbss]

>Those who sell out the US will wish they hadn't. Paybacks are a Bitch.

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Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no?

But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?

Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar's.

And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's.

Luke 20:22-25
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Hey. China has laws.
We have laws. It's NOT against
our laws to obey

laws in other lands.
Heck. Even Jesus allowed
obeying the law.

[Jimbaugh]

This isn't going to be fight with words, its going to be a fight with guns and bombs.

The Chinese are monsters and we are going to have to fight them sooner or later. Those who helped the Chinese are going to end up very dead one way or another.

PS: What does Caesar have to do with companies that are traitors in the US?

[Frank T]

"It's also not unusual for U.S. search engines, such as Google, Microsoft MSN, and Yahoo, to censor their Chinese-language search results at the request of the government."

Big business (liberal) companies? Check. Big government in China? Check. Will liberals complain about microsoft's stiffling of free speach in China? No. They are hypocrites.

[Frank T]

"However, you would fund that wopuld run counter to US foreign policy, which since the days of Nixon has believed that free trade is more important than promoting democracy in China."

China and the US has a free trade agreement? Not that I ever heard or read.

Trade? Yes. Free trade? Nope.

The Chinese government subsidizes part of it's industry, and when businesses over there then dump their products at below market costs, that has crossed the threshold from free trade to just trade. Big difference.