MS Blog Policy To Address Country-Specific Issues

By Steve Rubel
Expert Author
Article Date: 2006-01-31

IDG News reports that Microsoft has revamped its blogging policy after many employees expressed outrage over the company's abrupt censoring of a Chinese blogger.

Under the new policy, Microsoft will only remove blogs when given proper legal notice, and will only block access to that material within the country where it is deemed unlawful using special technology.

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About the Author:
Steve Rubel is a PR strategist with nearly 16 years of public relations, marketing, journalism and communications experience. He currently serves as a Senior Vice President with Edelman, the largest independent global PR firm.

He authors the Micro Persuasion weblog, which tracks how blogs and participatory journalism are changing the public relations practice.

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