content: Microsoft Recruiter sent me an email today about a job in cloud... thinking about responding with this satire. So I got a pretty standard recruiter email today from them. I get these about once every few months. I am thinking about replying with this nice bit of satire: Hello ########. I would love to work at Microsoft! My dream job has always been to be make an impact on the lives of others. I am particularly interested the work that Microsoft has done in accommodating its international clients. I think my dream job would be working on the Chinese partnership contracts. I think that the work Microsoft does to accommodate search and cloud, in China, has a major impact. In particular, they have done a great job silencing anyone who speaks out against an authoritarian government. The thought of putting helpless citizens in prison just gives me goose bumps all over. At the end of the day, the the thought of some person rotting away with HIV in some Chinese jail cell exactly what I want to think about before I go to sleep. The fact that I get a paycheck (with benefits) is just icing on the cake. Improvements? Does it suck? Can you rewrite it better? I would rather it at least zing or make a point. I have no quarrels sending this, I just don't want it to be retarded/pointless/counter-productive. I mean seriously, who recruits for microsoft without understanding how actually evil they are. And no, I am not a Micro$oft sucks 14 year old. I am genuinely concerned about how willing they are to track "free speech offenders" in China. And how easily they would be willing to do that there speaks volumes about how easily they'll do (or already are) that to Americans/Europeans. Why am I sending this? Well, because like all of you, I am going to die one day. The better I acknowledge that, the more I live. I rather die with a full spine intact then some cowering office worker who is afraid of being blacklisted. edit: If anyone can dig up good sources on Microsoft working with China in ammoral ways, please provide. I don't want to just go on some edgy diatribe. I know I have heard about them working with the Chinese Gov before, but that was in early 2000 and I can't seem to find any good sources to back up MS specifically helping China jail its thought-criminals. I heard that they and CISCO helped provide software in that effort, but I can't remember the specifics of it. edit2: The only source I can find is really about yahoo providing information that lead to the arrest of this man. Who really sadly, is dying of lung diseased due to forced labor in a Chinese gulag: There are at least 60 cyber dissidents in prison – this figure covers only better-known intellectuals – for having disseminated "subversive" material through the internet. One of these is the author Shi Tao. The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN said the journalist and poet was suffering from respiratory problems and a skin inflammation as a result of forced labour. Shi was sentenced on 27 April 2005 to 10 years in prison for "leaking state secrets abroad", for having informed the editor of a New York website about government initiatives to prevent commemorations of the 15th anniversary of the massacre in Tiananmen Square. The email address of the journalist was revealed to police by the Internet Service Provider Yahoo Inc. On 5 September, Shi was transferred to the high-security Chishan prison in Hunan Province where, according to his family, many inmates have pneumonia or respiratory ailments as a result of forced labour of cutting and polishing jewels.  edit4: Found what I was looking for, an actual source instead of just edgy (but probably well-deserved) finger pointing. http://www.michaelrobertson.com/archive.php?minute_id=275  Microsoft bought Skype, a company that has had no problem monitoring its users in China to execute/jail/disappear any thought criminals. Here is a much better, non biased source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOM_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype#Service_in_the_People.27s_Republic_of_China Microsoft has a partnership with TOM Group, who operates a massive filter over skype (and probably a ton of other portals/internet/mobile products) to catch though criminals. Okay, I think I will re-write the above slightly to be a bit more factual. Finally, although not as diaboloical as what Yahoo did, Microsoft did readily help delete/censor everything related to Zhao Jing on their blogging platform. Zhao Jing is the man who is dying from lung disease in a Chinese gulag due to forced labor (jewelry polishing/dust). http://www.nbcnews.com/id/36041417/ns/technology_and_science-security/t/navigating-chinas-web-censors/