-------- Original Message -------- Subject: @GreatFireChina and @FreeWeibo report that Microsoft is deploying Chinese censorship on global scale Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:41:52 -0500 From: Sandra <sandraordo...@openitp.org> Organization: OpenITP To: a...@lists.openitp.org
Dear FreeWeibo and GreatFire.org Supporters, Microsoft has responded to the claims we made yesterday with regards to global Chinese censorship on Bing. We have just published our response to Microsoft. In short, what Microsoft is saying is simply not true - and anybody, anywhere, can run independent tests themselves to verify our claims and to see that Microsoft is quite simply trying to cover up their complicit involvement in China's attempts to cleanse the worldwide web of any negative information about the Middle Kingdom. Before we published our post yesterday, we gave Microsoft four days to check to see if there was a technical error. Their first answer was "no comment" but now they believe that there is a partial error on their part. But we have checked our tests to see if an error is to blame and the results are in: "Computer says no!". Many media have reported that this is an issue which is affecting users in the US. We just want to highlight that this issue affects Bing customers everywhere in the world. We also believe that this is the perfect time for Microsoft to drop its excessive global censorship policy on any version outside of China and International bing inside China. This story shines a negative light on both Microsoft and China. We fully expect the Chinese authorities to continue with their draconian censorship practice. But for Microsoft, this is an enormous opportunity - do the right thing and stand up to Chinese censorship now. It has damaged your credibility with customers! As always, if you have any questions whatsoever, please feel free to contact me. Best, Charlie FreeWeibo has been nominated for the Index on Censorship 2014 digital activism award: https://freeweibo.com https://en.greatfire.org/press -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
