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When the members of Congress attack the executives of Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Cisco Systems at a hearing about their China operations, there were three important people who couldn't attend. Microsoft has also been timid, but nothing like Yahoo. Microsoft responded to a Chinese request by recently shutting down the outspoken blog of Michael Anti (who currently works for the New York Times Beijing bureau). Congress pilloried executives of Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and Cisco Systems at a hearing about their China operations. Microsoft responded to a Chinese request by recently shutting down the outspoken blog of Michael Anti. Microsoft also censors sensitive words in the Chinese version of its blog-hosting software, the blogger Rebecca MacKinnon found that it rejected the title ''I Love Freedom of Speech, Human Rights and Democracy" as prohibited language. Microsoft could publish a list of the political terms that it blocks as prohibited language.