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re Bill Gates Defends Microsoft Complicity in Chinese Censorship
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:45:43 -0500
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From: Mary Shaw <mary.shaw () gmail com> Date: January 25, 2010 9:02:53 PM EST To: dave () farber netSubject: Re: [IP] Bill Gates Defends Microsoft Complicity in Chinese Censorship
If we're supposed to accept that corporations are "persons" with respect to certain privileges, such as free speech, why should we not expect them to assume the responsibilities that we expect natural persons to assume?Ah, we can't. Then there's a problem with the corporation-as-person idea, isn't there?Mary Shaw On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Dave Farber <dave () farber net> wrote: 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 CensorshipCorporations 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 orgSubject: [ NNSquad ] Bill Gates Defends Microsoft Complicity in Chinese CensorshipBill Gates Defends Microsoft Complicity in Chinese Censorship http://bit.ly/8lkNLT (Guardian)Gates characterizes China's attempts to stifle dissent on the Internetas "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 90lashes in front of her classmates for a ruckus that developed over acell phone).Microsoft's apparent slogan going forward when it comes to large- scalecensorship related to human rights abuses: "We Wink at Evil." --Lauren-- NNSquad ModeratorArchivesArchives
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