a-n-t-i's blog at msn space was removed entirely. i speculate that anti's latest post about Beijing News is just an excuse for msn to remove the entire a-n-t-i blog, since msn clearly understands that the existence of such a blog jeopardises msn's buseinss prospects in china, which was (and will be) determined by their "relationship" with teh government.
msn is mean, but it has the right to be mean. the market offers the customers the right of choice to knock out such companies. in the case of a multinational like msn, although it's not likely for customers to knock out msn, they still have a lot of other blog host services to replace msn space, and by doing so, msn has to evaluate the trade-off between the immediate customer loss and future business gains, if in the future, the customer loss caused by censorship exceeds the business gains promised by censorship, then i'm sure msn space will take a much loose policy to censor its content.
so, in my opinion, msn just did what a foreign company should do in a media environment like china's, it was absolutely a correct business decision to remove a-n-t-i's blog, with the price of suspicions of its ethical standards in exchange for eliminating the risk of the whole business operations in china.
the problem dosen't lay between msn and chinese netizens or msn and chinese government, it's a problem between the chinese netizens and chinese censors. there are something that msn could improve when dealing with such censorship actions, like a clearer and explicit policy, advance warnings and a backup of the deleted contents, but to blame msn not defending the core value of free speech and ignore what that might cost the company in china market is just too naive and unfair to msn.