What should companies do when countries like China attemp to censor the Internet; their citizens' blogs for example? Microsoft has changed its stance so that free speech can spread that little bit further, but perhaps not quite as far as we'd like.
Brad Smith, Microsoft's senior lawyer, said it would now remove blog entries only if it gets a "legally binding notice" from the government of that nation. Entries will also be removed if they break the MSN Spaces terms of use.

He added that only people in the nation where the entry breaks local laws will be blocked from seeing the controversial comments. In all other nations access to the entry will be unrestricted.
[BBC News]