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MSN bloggers try to foul up censorship tool

Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:23 pm
by Pigman
http://news.com.com/MSN+bloggers+try+to ... 77090.html

MSN Spaces, Microsoft's new blogging service, has sparked a new game for some of its users: trying to circumvent its censorship controls.

BoingBoing, a popular Web log, on Friday reported that MSN Spaces is rejecting certain blog titles or URLs because they contain words that Microsoft has deemed inappropriate.


"If you can't speak freely on a blog, what's the point of having one?" BoingBoing pointed out

Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 7:09 am
by bio
MSN Spaces forces new users to grant Microsoft permission to "use, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, modify, translate and reformat" their blog postings.
I knew this was a bad thing! :-)

Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 8:56 am
by AsaJay
My original plan was to use their blog service -specifically- to bash them in any way possible, like every time my pc blue-screens. Bitch, whine and complain as much as I could about them, thier tactics, etc.

Just to see how long it was before I got kicked.

I guess I should get started.