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Web censorship in China? Not a problem, says Bill Gates
Bobbie Johnson and Tania Branigan
London
Guardian
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
After pouring billions of dollars into the global fight against
malaria and rebranding Microsoft in a more cuddly, human way,
Bill Gates had just about shaken off accusations that he represented
all that was unappealing about aggressive American capitalism.
But today his reinvention suffered something of a setback when
he played down China's attempts to stifle dissent on the internet
as "very limited".
Less than two weeks after Google said it planned to uncensor
its Chinese search engine in protest at attempts to break into
the email accounts of human rights activists, Gates criticised
his rival's decision and insisted that agreeing to Beijing's
demands was just part of doing business in the country. "You've
got to decide: do you want to obey the laws of the countries
you're in or not? If not, you may not end up doing business
there," he told ABC's Good Morning America programme.
He also brushed aside accusations that Microsoft has been complicit
in helping filter the web by saying that it was not an issue
because any censorship could be circumvented with technical
knowledge. "Chinese efforts to censor the internet have
been very limited," he said. "It's easy to go around
it, so I think keeping the internet thriving there is very important."
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