Cheap PR?

So I've been back in the UK a few days now and I'm slowly starting to

get my sleep back on track thanks to the jet-lag. Despite planning to

write my thoughts on why RIAA et all just don't get file-swapping (as

well as SCO's we didn't do nothing bid) I fire up BBC to find the todays href=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3133192.stm>top story

is that Microsoft has decided to remove its free Chat services in the

interests of "child safety". Now I've mentioned this subject ` <http://www.bennee.com/~alex/news.php?wl_mode=more&wl_eid=21&wl_search=evil%3Cbr>`__ >before and obviously no one took notice (not that anyone reads

this stuff anyway :-) ). I'll not repeat myself for why this sort of

approach will have no effect at all. What I am curious about is that

in a world of Iraq,The Hutton Inquiry, and numerous other news worthy items how this

became the lead article.

It seems to me its not only governments that are guilty of spin, the

telling quote in the news article was:

And I think the real motives are that Microsoft are pulling an

unprofitable, potentially legally liable service from their network

at the same time getting a PR coup for their "responsible" action.