free speech

Bill Gates: Internet censorship just won't work

Microsoft Subnet — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:19:54 -0500

Bill Gates understands some things very well. In his latest speech he's got it right when he contends that Internet censorship can't work as long as people are determined to know the truth. However, it is a very Western/U.S. egocentric idea that all cultures everywhere are interested in truly free speech. There are certainly populations of the world that aren't interested in anything other than their own version of the truth. Censorship wins in those parts of the world because people are trained to forgo free thought.

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Human rights and Cisco

Cisco Subnet — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:01:08 -0500

Chief Cisco spokesperson John Earnhardt fails to adquately answer The New York Times' Tom Zeller Jr.'s question of why Cisco is missing from the list of "technology companies, academics and human rights groups seeking to develop a set of principles for Western businesses operating in countries where it has proven all too easy for them to become — or at least appear to become — accomplices to regimes that repress free speech, privacy and other basic rights."

Which speaks louder - money or social responsibility?

How to make money with a Web site

Mark Gibbs — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:57:21 -0500

I know that many of you have Web sites and want to know how to make the big time (financially speaking). The answer is simple : You need to be a middle school student, create a site that criticizes your school, and attend Maple Place School in Oceanside, New Jersey where they apparently have never studied the constitution.

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