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via: rconversation - chinese anti-msn protest

Chinese blogger Isaac Mao, founder of the Blogbus blog-hosting service, has launched a protest against MSN spaces:

 

He is calling on bloggers to display a "Say No to MSN Spaces" button on their blogs.

 

He writes that not only is MSN Spaces filtering politically sensitive key words, but has taken the "even more evil" step of shutting down user blogs, with the justification of "respecting Chinese law."

i read a comment somewhere else asking whether any blog host in china could keep the anti blog or perform better than msn, so it becomes interesting for me to know what are the policies of Isaac's blogbus service, here is what i find from blogbus "service items" (in chinese) for its users to comply with:

... you agree to comply to the following laws ... <the decision to keep the internet safety by the CPCC>, <the law of keeping state secrets of PRC>, ... if blogbus believes that you violate any of the above laws adn regulations, blogbus could terminate the service at any time without advance notice.

 

... blogbus is not responsible for any contents (you transmit, store ...), but has the right based on laws to take corresponding actions, including but not confined to ... keeping the records, reporting to related government institutions.

 

... users must agree that s/he not use this blog service to: ... harm the national security, leak state secret, destroy national unity, ... disturb social order and stability, ...

i just wonder how Isaac could reconcile the discrepancies between his anti-msn campaign and his blog "service items".

bear in mind that Isaac's integrity is not my concern here. a lot of people including myself face similar dilemma almost everyday and often choose to compromise. the question i want to ask is that is morality a proper angle to observe and analyze many issues in today's china?

TBC