Microsoft has pulled a well-known Chinese blogger’s site off the Internet — a dramatic reminder that doing business in the booming Chinese economy comes with significant strings attached. Microsoft removed the blog of Chinese journalist Zhao Jing from its MSN Spaces service at the end of December, saying that it was complying with the country’s law in doing so. The blog was taken down after Zhao Jing, under the pen name of Michael Anti, wrote about the firing of an editor of the Beijing News, which in turn sparked a strike by some 100 journalists at the paper.
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Microsoft Censors Chinese Blogger
Posted by: Keith Regan January 6, 2006 01:16 PMMicrosoft has pulled a well-known Chinese blogger’s site off the Internet — a dramatic reminder that doing business in the booming Chinese economy comes with significant strings attached. Microsoft removed the blog of Chinese journalist Zhao Jing from its MSN Spaces service at the end of December, saying that it was complying with the country’s law in doing so. The blog was taken down after Zhao Jing, under the pen name of Michael Anti, wrote about the firing of an editor of the Beijing News, which in turn sparked a strike by some 100 journalists at the paper.