A senior Microsoft manager has defended the decision to remove the blog of a Chinese journalist from the company's MSN Spaces [in China, a joint venture of Microsoft & Shanghai Alliance Entertainment] site, claiming that content which breaks national laws must be taken down. Michael Connolly, a product unit manager on MSN Spaces, posted an entry on his personal blog site on Thursday claiming that Microsoft faces a lot of "complicated issues" in China, but insisted that the organisation has not become more aggressive in the way it moderates its user's content. [also refers to Yahoo!]