After the depressing recent news that Google is customizing its service in China to implement the Chinese government's censorship goals, and Microsoft's decision last month to bow to the Chinese government and remove the blog of dissident Zhao Jing, it is some small comfort that Microsoft announced today that it has adopted a less censor-friendly policy for its MSN Spaces blog service.
According to the Financial Times:
"Microsoft said it would only remove blogs when it receives an official legal order. However, it said it would continue to publish material that was blocked in this way outside the country concerned."