Microsoft buigt voor regime

Microsoft, onder andere bekend van Hotmail, is gezwicht voor het Chinese regime. De journalist Zhao Jing (ook bekend onder de naam Michael Anti, heeft een chinese weblog bij Microsoft�s MSN Spaces. De toon van de artikelen op zijn weblog kan de goedkeuring niet wegdragen van het regime in Peking. Officieel is het niet zwichten, maar het toegeven aan de strenge chinese censuur. Direct aanleiding, melden De Volkskrant en nieuwsgroepen op internet, is het kritische verhaal van Zaho Jing (30) over het opstappen van journalisten van Beijing Daily News naar aanleiding van het ontslag van de hoofdredacteur. Dat ontslag was weer het gevolg van kritische artikelen in die krant over de politie die actievoerders in het zuiden van China.
Microsoft verdedigt het sluiten van de weblog van Jing (dus zelfcensuur) door te zeggen dat het bedrijf wereldwijd werkt en dat het er zeker van moet zijn dat de diensten van Microsoft aan internationale als lokele wetten voldoen. Buigen voor een regime vindt Microsoft dus belangrijker dan vrijheid van meningsuiting. Verwerpelijk!. Op verschillende internetpagina�s staan de gewraakte weblogbijdragen van Ahao Jing te lezen. En dus op mijn weblog ook maar:
Today, Beijing News produced as normal and there were 116 pages. News is not just about ideals, but also about making a living. I have no right to accse any ordinary reporter or editor to make the realistic choice, but I can at least express my highest regard for the few who chose the ideals of journalism.
I feel that the issue of Beijing News today is especially worthy to collect. You can see the hints for this major historical event in journalism. This issue will enter into the future history of freedom of press in China. By that time, the most excellent students of Chinese journalism will review this issue.
At the least, we can enjoy one expression of idealism: wisdom. Please look at the city photograph on page A32 about the weather. Yongan Road Number 106 is the address of Beijing News. The time: yesterday, December 29. The event: A leading bird leads the flock across the sky; although the sky was not very clear, they still head towards the distant target in their hearts.
I am going to turn and tell those friends who chose the reality. Nobody is going to blame you. But we are reporters, and reporters will use the oral history and lore as our highest truth. Our excellent Beijing News predecessors died for that ideal. You chose reality, but you have missed history.
Personal history are written by people themselves. Many years later, some people will say that they did not give up on that day. Other people can only evade repeatedly that they were not present then.
There are many job opportunities, but historical moments occur only once every few years. When the idealists travel, they will be welcomed the whole way. For those of you who choose reality, please take care because the road is long. In journalism, our reputation is more important than our jobs.

En het tweede artikel:
Today is December 29. 2006 will arrive in two days time. But we have already subscribed to the entire 2006 Beijing News. But before we even got to enjoy this present, the product has been switched. The perpetually lying Guangming Daily has taken over the newspaper that we paid for with our earned wages. To tell the truth, I would rather eat shit than buy Guangming Daily or any of its derivatives.
Those Guangming folks obviously do not care about readers like us. They treat us as compliant people and think that they can feed us any shit that they want. Unfortunately, we are not that stupid. So I ask all those people who don’t consider ourselves as shit to call Beijing News’ 6391000 number and ask them to refund our entire year’s subscription fee unconditionally.
If you subscribed as an organization, you ought to consider that in the commercialized world that everything is spent on the basis of cost and you would not be spending money on a pile of shit. I ask you to convince the employees in your information office to call 63190000 to ask for an unconditional refund of your annual subscription.
If you are an advertiser, please pay attention to your commercial losses. Your prepaid advertising expenditure on Beijing News will be spent on an Guangming Daily derivative. Your hypothetical quality reader would have left. So please call 63190000 to ask them to repay you for your advertising losses.
We are not pigs and we are not going to be slaughtered. We cannot let you take our money. Althought this is only just over 300 yuan, we demand the full service and promise. We will bravely reject any dishonest behavior.
Furthermore, we ask all our lawyer friends to assist the victimized readers to file a class action against Guangming Daily when we demand our reufnds. Against these deceptive practices, we demand not just compensation, but multiple damages.
For those readers who reufse to be cheated and insulted, we hope that you post this announcement to let others know how to protect their own interests.
This is not any big deal. It is not even about Beijing News. It is to prove that we are not pigs that can be slaughtered by tohers. If the Guangming people want to play political games, we don’t care. We only care about whether we should subscribe to the 2006 Guangming trash. This is a market society and we want to protect our wallets. This is our natural right as protected by the constituion.
Please forward this post.
En uit protest tegen het chinese bewind, hier de tekst in het Chinees:
今天新京報正常出版，116版。新聞不僅僅是理想，也是現實的飯碗。我沒有資格指責任何普通的記者編輯選擇現實，但我至少對選擇新聞理想的人表示我的最高敬意。
我覺得今天這期新京報是特別值得收集的，你可以看到如此重大新聞史事件的蛛絲馬跡。這是一期要載入未來中國新聞自由史教材的報紙，到時候，中國最優秀的新聞學子都必須回顧這一篇章。
我們今天至少能欣賞理想主義的體現之一：智慧。請看A32氣象新聞版的這張城市表情照片。永安路106號就是新京報的報社地址。時間：昨天，12月29日。事件：頭鳥帶領著群鳥飛過高空，天空雖然不是很晴朗，但它們依然會載著心中的目標飛向遠方。
回頭對選擇現實的朋友說幾句。沒人指責你們。只是說，我們這些人是記者，記者以傾聽和記錄歷史脈搏為我們的最高使命，我們的優秀《京報》前輩可以為這個理想去死。你們選擇了現實，但你們錯過了歷史。
每個人的歷史都是自己寫的。很多年之後，有些人可以自豪地說，那天，我沒有屈服。有些人只能一次次地回避自己曾經也在現場。
工作機會很多，但歷史時刻數年才會一次。理想者要遠行，他們以後一路受到歡迎。你們選擇現實的人，多保重，路還很長。在我們這個新聞行當，聲譽遠比職位要重要。
En het tweede artikel:
今天是12月29日，2006年還有2天才到來。可是我們已經訂閱了2006年整年的《新京報》。甚至在這份產品我們還沒有享受到的時候，我們的東西被掉包了。那個整天不說人話的《光明日報》接管了這張我們用自己的薪水買的報紙。說實話，我寧願去吃屎我也不要訂什麼《光明日報》和它的什麼變種。
這些光明摘桃派，當然也不會在乎我們這些讀者，他們也就當我們這些人是順民，以為他們拉什麼屎我們就應該接著。可惜我們沒有這麼賤。請所有還當自己是人不是屎殼郎的讀者，和我一起打《新京報》的63190000電話，要求他們立刻、不帶條件地退還我們整年的訂款。
如果你是一個集團訂戶，也請考慮在這個商業社會，任何花費都應該考慮成本，你們總不能花錢買調包的屎吧。請你們說服你們的資料室的同事，立刻打電話63190000，要求他們立刻、不帶條件地退還你們整年的訂款。
如果你是廣告客戶，請特別注意你們的損失，因為你們預付給新京報的廣告費用，明年會被登在一個奇怪的光明日報變種上，你們假想的優質讀者也都會憤而離開。也請你們立刻打電話63190000，要求他們給你們以廣告損失的補償。
我們不是豬，不能任人宰割，不能隨意把我們錢騙走。對，雖然就是300多元錢，但我們需要的是完整的服務和承諾。對任何不講信用的行為，我們要勇敢地而且理所當然地說不。
另外，我在這裏呼籲律師朋友，請幫助我們這些受害的讀者，在他們拒絕退款之後，向光明日報提起集體賠償訴訟，對這種欺詐行為，不但要賠償，而且要數倍賠償。
所有不願被耍、被欺騙、被侮辱的讀者，希望你們轉貼這個聲明，讓更多的人為了自己的利益立刻打電話給63190000。
這不是為了什麼大的東西，甚至都不是為了新京報，只是為了證明，我們不是任人宰割的豬頭。如果光明的人想玩政治玩權術，玩去吧我們不關心，我們只關心，我不要訂什麼2006年整年的破光明日報。這是市場社會，捍衛自己的錢包，是憲法保護的天生的權利。
請轉貼，請立刻打電話