If you want to come into my house and use the internet, that's fine. But you will do so through my firewall. If the EFF then writes an article about my 'restrictive' firewall. I'll tell them to politely fsck off.
I am not condoning the filtering of search results, and never will. In the grand picture we all know that this censoring gig never works. But where does the EFF get this idea that they have the right to berate a company and insinuate that they disobey a governments rules/laws/standards in their own country? It's a bit much 'aint it?
>"There is absolutely no excuse for a company—particularly one that has made commitments to free expression by being a founding member of the Global Network Initiative—
to regulate speech beyond that which is required" .
You are misunderstanding the EFF - they are not asking Microsoft to disobey the government but for Microsoft to not go overboard with the censoring. Currently they are censoring more than they are being asked to ('beyond that which is required' bit).
It's like they are adding more restrictions to your already restrictive firewall - restrictions that you didn't ask for. To answer your question: no, it's not a bit much.
I am not condoning the filtering of search results, and never will. In the grand picture we all know that this censoring gig never works. But where does the EFF get this idea that they have the right to berate a company and insinuate that they disobey a governments rules/laws/standards in their own country? It's a bit much 'aint it?