By Lauren Gelman on February 1, 2006 at 1:33 pm
According to TechWeb News
Under the new rules, Microsoft will remove access to blog content only when it receives a government-issued, legally binding notice indicating that the material violates local laws. ...Under those conditions, the company would remove access to content only in the country issuing the order, leaving it accessible to people in other countries. Microsoft would also notify users prevented from accessing the content that it is unavailable due to government restrictions.
This is interesting because it means the writers may be censored in their home country, but their blog can be accessed from the rest of the world. I wonder if anonymous blogging tools could play an important role here. The Chinese government may be able to use legal process to prevent their citizen's from reading someone blogging anonymously in China but this policy means China could not censor their voice from the rest of their world.
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