MICROSOFT AND BILL GATES

• In 1997 China instituted the “Great Firewall.” China’s censoring was in full practice.¹²⁴
  
  
• In 2005, Bill Gates launched a blogging software program called MSN Spaces in China. CEO Bill Gates admitted that they censored according to the directions of the Chinese military. Words censored by Bill Gates on MSN Spaces were, “democracy,” “human rights,” “freedom of expression.” Bill Gates also blocked searches for the words, “Tibet independence,” “Falun Gong,” and “Tiananmen Square.”¹²⁵
  
  
• April 18, 2006, the then Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington and had dinner at the home of Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect.¹²⁶
  
  
• 100,000 words were studied to apply censorship and surveillance programs to Bill Gates’ products like SKYPE.¹²⁷¹²⁷
  
  
• President Xi's cyber-espionage military community has censored and surveilled all Skype users since 2008.¹²⁸
  
  
• In 2008, Bill Gates lied to Stanford Students and told them that no one could censor the Internet even though he had been censoring and helping the Chinese cyber-espionage military community since 2005.¹²⁹
  
  

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    ¹²⁴   The Transpacific Experiment: How China and California Collaborate and Compete for Our Future, (Berkeleu, CA: Counterpoint, 2019, page 70;
    ¹²⁵   Undermining freedom of expression in China. The role of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google, Amnesty International UK, July 19, 2006, Index Number: POL 30/026/2006, https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/POL30/026/2006/en/
    ¹²⁶   China's President Hu has dinner with Bill Gates, by Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service, April 19, 2006, https://www.networkworld.com/article/2310908/china-s-president-hu-has-dinner-with-bill-gates.html
    ¹²⁷   Measuring Decentralization of Chinese Censorship in Three Industry Segments, by Jeffrey Knockel, Dissertation, 2008-2011, https://www.cs.unm.edu/~jeffk/publications/jeffs-dissertation.pdf
    ¹²⁸   Cracking China's Skype Surveillance Software, by Vernon Silver, Bloomberg Businessweek, March 8, 2013, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-03-08/cracking-chinas-skype-surveillance-software
    ¹²⁹   Bill Gates: Internet Censorship Won’t Work, By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau, IDG, Published: February 20, 2008, https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_002570DE00740E18882573F50010C487.html?technolog