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Big Business Aids China’s Censorship

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Microsoft Corp. has shut down a popular Chinese-language blog that has run edgy content potentially offensive to Chinese authorities.

Capitalists are often the worst enemy of capitalism. Microsoft, along with other high-tech firms like Yahoo and Google, has been helping Chinese censors identify customers who e-mail words forbidden by this repressive government, words like “freedom,” “democracy” and “Tiananmen massacre.”

These companies’ complicity in the destruction of an individual’s free speech in China is shameful. As Americans, these companies should trumpet, not trample, the rights of the individual.

U.S. companies should not do business in China if the price is to help destroy the very rights and freedoms that make their own economic success possible.


Andrew Bernstein is a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute and author of “The Capitalist Manifesto.”

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