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Re: [chat] Bill Gates: the $67 billion dollar man interview with JANA WENDT


On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:07:15AM +1000, Malcolm V wrote:
>  I got lost at the following sentence.
> 
> You know, the US has tended to have very free speech-oriented 
> environment and so certain political speech that is, say, Germany, for 
> good reasons, coming out its history, bans, or are allowed in the US, so 
> we sit down and say, "OK, how can we enable the software so it's blocked 
> where it should be blocked and not blocked where it shouldn't be blocked?"
> 
> Did he really say that or is that just a transcription error?

sounds like the transcript should have meant "certain political speech
that is banned in, say, Germany, is allowed in the US", so Mr. Gates'
company must deal with the technical consequences of that.

Conrad.