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January 08, 2006
Peter Saint-Andre Agrees: Boycott Microsoft
Posted by Stowe Boyd
Peter Saint-Andre joins my call:
[from one small voice]
Boycott Microsoft!
The rebrobates [sic -- reprobates?] of Redmond and the butchers of Beijing.
The New York Times is reporting that Microsoft has, at the behest of the Chinese Communist regime, removed the weblog of Zhao Jing (who blogged under the pen name "An Ti") from its MSN Spaces service, without even providing him with the deleted files. A while back Microsoft was keen on calling Linux and other open-source software a form of communism -- I guess now we see who the true communist sympathizers are (perhaps it's because both Microsoft and the Communist Party are dinosaurs). Does Microsoft think that its much-touted freedom to innovate implies the freedom to censor? Stowe Boyd is right: it's time to boycott Microsoft.
Update: 8 Jan 2006 9:40am -- Found another advocate of boycotting Microsoft, Peter Wall. I guess I am still amazed that there isn't a demonstration in front of the company's headquarters.
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I assume that you're also boycotting Yahoo! for providing the identity of a Chinese Yahoo! email user to Chinese police which resulted in a ten year sentence because the user wrote an email about "overseas Chinese returning for the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre."
I think that is far worse than disabling a blogger's account. The blogger can simply move to another service. The jailed Yahoo! email user is going to lose ten years of his life.
article:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0909/p01s03-woap.html
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