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Re: "Bill Gates Bats for China"

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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Thursday 28 Jan 2010 00:22 : \____

> nessuno pulled this Usenet boner:
> 
>> <Quote>
>> Chinese state-run media trumpeted comments by Microsoft Corp. Chairman
>> Bill Gates that played down China's Internet restrictions, as the
>> government continued to ratchet up its rebuttal of recent U.S.
>> criticisms of its Web policies.
>>
>> Mr. Gates, in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" this
>> week, said that China's "efforts to censor the Internet have been very
>> limited," and likened its controls to those of other countries. In
>> separate comments, he criticized Microsoft rival Google Inc.'s
>> statement this month that it would stop obeying Beijing's censorship
>> rules on its Chinese-language site, and might close its offices in the
>> country.
>>
>> On Wednesday, several Chinese newspapers gave the comments prominent
>> display. "Bill Gates Bats for China," read the lead headline in the
>> English edition of the Global Times, a tabloid published by the
>> People's Daily, the Communist Party's official newspaper. The
>> tabloid's Chinese version, which claims a daily circulation of 1.5
>> million, also devoted its front page to Mr. Gates's comments and to
>> Western media reports of them, while China Daily, the country's main
>> English-language paper,also highlighted the comments on page one.
>> </Quote>
>>
>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703410004575028931978304078.html?mod=WSJ_business_whatsNews
> 
> The new People's Leader!
> 
>    http://www.wired.com/images/article/full/2007/05/chairmangates.jpg

Suppressive minds think alike.

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