Bill Gates Defends Microsoft Complicity in Chinese Censorship

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: January 25, 2010 7:46:59 PM EST
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Bill Gates Defends Microsoft Complicity in  
> Chinese Censorship

> Bill Gates Defends Microsoft Complicity in Chinese Censorship
>
> http://bit.ly/8lkNLT  (Guardian)
>
> Gates characterizes China's attempts to stifle dissent on the Internet
> as "very limited" since "it's easy to go around it."  (Just don't
> get caught, right Bill?)
>
> Meanwhile, MS CEO Steve Ballmer compared participating in Chinese
> censorship to buying oil from our friends in Saudi Arabia (you
> remember them, the ones who just sentenced a 13 year old girl to 90
> lashes in front of her classmates for a ruckus that developed over a
> cell phone).
>
> Microsoft's apparent slogan going forward when it comes to large-scale
> censorship related to human rights abuses:
>
> "We Wink at Evil."
>
> --Lauren--
> NNSquad Moderator



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