Bill Gates Defends Microsoft Complicity in Chinese Censorship

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com>
> Date: January 25, 2010 8:17:46 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Bill Gates Defends Microsoft Complicity in Chinese  
> Censorship

> Corporations are "persons" that have no capability for empathy.   
> That's just not how "free markets" work.  Get over the idea that  
> humane practices matter.  Only things that have monetary value  
> matter, and the sooner we get that, the sooner we will understand  
> the wonders of modern economists.
>
> On 01/25/2010 08:07 PM, Dave Farber wrote:
> > 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
> > Archives        



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