Gates: Censorship is Dead
“The ability to really withhold information no longer exists,” Gates told a government forum on the Internet.
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But the spread of free, private e-mail enabled users to disseminate information anyway, Gates said.“You may be able to take a very visible Web site and say that something shouldn’t be there, but if there’s a desire by the population to know something … it’s going to get out very broadly” via e-mail, Gates said.
The internet has killed censorship. Bill Gates gets it.
Orwell’s 1984 society will never happen to an internet-connected society.