The new Microsoft Explorer being exported to China has built in detectors which will stop the offending internet user from getting hits on words like "freedom", "democracy", etc. How magnanimous of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. There's a line from the movie Wall Street where Hal Holbrook's character takes Charlie Sheen's character aside and says, "One thing about money, Bud, it makes you do things...you don't want to do." One wonders whether Microsoft thought this through, or whether they didn't care. I'm with the latter theory. You can read about Microsoft's sordid deal with the devil here.
The irony of it all is that here's Bill Gates, at the vanguard of capitalism and a beneficiary of the fruits of this great democracy, prostituting the ideals of this nation for a buck. Awful. Just awful.
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