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¿Question #4158?
kennyb: Should Microsoft bow to the Chinese governments demand to filter out the words "Freedom" and "Democracy" from their websites in China

Woelf: If that happens, they'll never be able to experience the Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy".
pricero1: Microsoft and freedom in the same sentence. Weird
weed131: no
Felimid: Absolutely not!
Cubsfan31: Nope
jforbes: If they want to make more money, yes. The people that want to find that information will find
Zarion of Arabel: yes
smittenkitten: What the hell?! Definately not.
admiraldan: Heck no!
kensheffield: nope
beri: If they want to do business in China, yes. I disagree with the policy, but it's not Microsoft's place to challenge a foreign power. They should play by the rules of business, in whatever country they're doing business.
dogzard: no
WonderLlama: No. Though I'd be surprised if those demands exist.
geigerclan: no
Muzza: no
matthan: Microsoft should bow to everyone.
DHEK: No. One should not support the suppression of freedom and democracy, especially when one has the power to make a difference.
aleo09: maybe
Pacnis: of course not
Ebon Wendigo: Nope
POvidiusNaso: Absolutely! America has already allowed its government to spy on her.
scriptorum: Nobody has to bow to the Chinese, they'll censor the websites for you.
PsyJam: We're all going to bow to the Chinese government sooner or later..
BooChihuahua: Hell no!
ZiggyZambo: No
cowdog: No, but they will. Money is more important to us than freedom.
Dean Conrad: Absolutely NOT!
JonBen: yes
KillerKingFisher: never, boycot China instead
vampywife: that's a tough one. on the one hand, if China doesn't like our words, they can block the websites. on the other hand, maybe there is some kind of compromise that can be made. the patriotic part of me goes with a heck no for sure, though!
herman_the_german: I think French Fries should remain such. Freedom Fries is just ridiculous.
FrozenHoHos: Only if the Chinese filter out lame fortunes like "You love Chinese food" from their cookies.
tipsyweasel: Do their websites even contain those words?
hooded_paladin: They shouldn't, but they will.
jasta6: NO WAY, I have had it with this PC crap. Besides the Chinese are commies, so what do we care if they like it or not....................................
twixter: Sure, hold back the tide with those whips.
brainrob: No
Fawkes: Ask Gates.
JohnnyD: No...pull the hell out of China!
CraftyShafty: No, they should hotlink images of Tianenmen Square to them.
AbeLincoln: heck no!
skrebs: Depends upon if they want to make $$$ over there.
Tushratta: I think they already have. They also avoid any use of the name "Republic of China" when referring to Taiwan. It pisses off the Chi-coms.
darthcliff: Only if China agrees to filter out all the MSG in their food over here.
MochaKimono: Heck yeah. You have no idea how offensive freedom can be. It's right up their with the Ten Commandments.
skrutsch: Well, if it were anyone but MicroSoft, I'd say no.
jttm: Don't really care.
Spielfreak: no
skelebone: F no.
CortexBomb: This is way too broad of a question to really cover here. Should they if they followed my philosophical system: No. Should they as a representative of the capitalist system: yes. Should they as a ostensensible members of a democratic western world: no. Will they? Probably.
Lord_Prussian: No
chaddyboy_2000: No.
CDRodeffer: No.