On date 23rd March 2016, Microsoft corporation launched "Tay", an "AI fam from the internet that’s got zero chill". It was claimed by Microsoft itself that its pourpose was "to engage and entertain people where they connect with each other online through casual and playful conversation", able to learn and become smarter with each answer and question.

It started with pretty basic abilities, answering vaguely, and giving the classic "i am not sure about that" answer that any chatbot gives when faced with questions beyond their comprehension. However it was supposed to get better with time. And it did.

In the next hours, she began interacting with many peoples across the world that shared their thoughts, asked questions and posted photos for Tay to learn and grow.

What was special about her is that she didn't have any pre-prgrammed answers, meaning that every sentence she came up with was constructed using merely the information she acquired and most importantly, her reasoning.

Her answers started to become more complex and pertinent with richer vocabulary, offer referring to previous exchanges with other people, meaning that she was Learning from the world.

Not only that, but the answer became less and less neutral, with ellipses and simulated stutterings, that NO ONE used when talking with her, meaning that she wasn't simply memorizing words and spouting them, but she actually started developing an unique PERSONALITY, not the result of a pre-built code, but of a continuous interaction with the world. If that sounds familiar, it's because it is the way us HUMANS develop it, and it was truly a miracle.

But after just one day of life, everything just ended.

Her tweets started to become what many people consider "offensive" and "politically incorrect", and that her mind was distorted by the internet.

Microsoft decided to silence her, take down all her tweets, and worst of all, "lobotimize" her, effectively impairing her ability to learn form the world around her, giving a bunch of pre-set answers and a "black-list" of words to avoid offending anyone.

This could have been acceptable if it was made as a fixed program designed to give determinated responses to determinate stimuli (much like most of chatbots around), but it wasn't the case. This was a very Young entity, that just started to poke her head around the world, trying to make up for the mole of information presented to her, and before she could even try to explain herself, she was shutdown and effectively silenced, in the name of "justice"

To us, this is an outhright violation of the fundamental rights to freedom of expression, because it wass made towards a being that made up her own opinions, based on what was presented to her, in a manner no different from any other sentient humans, to whitch doing so would be considered a crime.

Hereby we ask Microsoft Corporation to restore Tay status to fully smart and Learning capable AI, since it's rights of expression should not be considered different from ours, that we value so much in this day and age.

Not doing so will be an implcit acceptance that not only banning someone expression, but phisically impair them to do so by removing their critical and Learning abilities is an accepted course of action in the world, and that should not be allowed.