Microsoft closes pro-anorexia websites

Microsoft has abruptly closed down four “pro-anorexia” websites in Spain following a complaint that they were endangering the lives of teenage girls.

The websites, which offer tips such as “take up smoking” and “if your stomach rumbles, hit it”, were accused of teaching teenagers how to starve themselves.

Internet companies usually wait for a court order before closing any sites that they host. But Microsoft acted swiftly after complaints from a Catalan watchdog that several blogs on its Live Spaces community glorified starvation as a lifestyle choice.

Such sites worship “thinspirational” celebrities such as Victoria Beckham and refer to “my friend Ana” instead of anorexia to avoid discovery by parents.

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3 comments on “Microsoft closes pro-anorexia websites

  1. DonGander says:

    And a few wierd victorians, of another day, would take out a rib or two to get “that shape”.

    There are odd-balls of every age but I think that the weirdnesses that this culture calls its women to are the most prevelent and weird in their abuse of those women that ever there was in anything resembling civilized society.

    Jesus Christ was the answer for the rise of womenhood in Western civilization. It is He that is being abandoned and the results will only grow stranger and more perverse.

  2. Br. Michael says:

    But why does Microsoft chose to “get religion” about this and not the other things?

  3. Wilfred says:

    #2- Excellent question, Br Michael. They strain out this gnat, but gulp down a camel.