Bill Gates: Internet censorship just won't work
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InfoWorld - Efforts by countries like China to restrict the exchange of information on the Internet are ultimately doomed to failure, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told an audience of Stanford University students Tuesday.
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Researchers find that setting the Apple firewall to block all incoming Internet traffic doesn't work.
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes spam will be a thing of the past within two years. He did not elaborate on his definition of spam.
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... but I am as confident as I am   that the Sun will rise tomorrow that it will be safe from terrorists.   After all, we have the children to think about.    It seems that David Clark, who led the development of  the Internet way back in the '70's - did you know there  even was a '70's? -  wants to     create a whole new Internet that will fix many of the problems the   current Internet is plagued with.  The New Internet's engineers will be  much more careful this time around to make sure it works better than  the first one did.    I'm afraid, though, that the engineers are not the only ones  who will be deciding how our New Internet will work.      If one is able to find any   privacy or anonymity in this New Internet,   it will be because of some undiscovered     security hole, which will be   quickly repaired, rather than any kind of conscious design decision.    Probably one reason they are accepting proposals before rolling it out   is to avoid the sort of accidental security holes that enable pr0n,   peer-to-peer filesharing and   left-wing political activism.
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Web father says his invention should never be controlled by a single entity, but declines to endorse a specific Net neutrality bill.
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Microsoft is not privately haggling with Yahoo over the software maker's rejected $31-per-share buyout offer for the slumping Internet pioneer, Bill Gates said in an interview.
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LONDON, Oct 16  (IPS) - An information rights activist has warned against  the growing power of the  "landlords" of cyberspace.
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Politicians and trade officials are still pressuring the nation to shut down "illegal" Web sites and to align its intellectual property laws with "international standards."
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.âMicrosoft chairman Bill Gates says he&#39;s never had a computer virus, but that adware and malware have him ticked off enough that Microsoft plans to do something about them.
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Eric Schmidt said the Internet has an ever-growing role in allowing free expression, but only if attempts to squelch it are unsuccessful.
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&quot;Spam is a major security problem,&quot; acknowledges Microsoft founder Bill Gates, but he maintains that progress has been made in the fight against unsolicited e-mail.
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Efforts by countries like China to restrict the exchange of information on the Internet are ultimately doomed to failure, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said in a speech.
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By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER WASHINGTON - Once relatively indifferent to government affairs, Google Inc. is seeking help inside the Beltway to fight the rise of Web censorship worldwide. The online search giant is taking a novel approach to the problem by asking U.S.
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(CBS) I have no idea whether Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates stays up at night worrying about his empire but, if he does, he may very well be losing sleep over the Mozilla Foundation.
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OLPC chairman says laptop project could not promote openness if it was closed to Microsoft.
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It is the news that Internet users do not want to hear: the worldwide web is in danger of collapsing around us. Patrick Gelsinger, the chief technology officer for computer chip maker Intel, told a conference
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(InfoWorld) - The Internet has an ever-growing role to play in allowing free expression across the globe, but only if attempts to reign it in are unsuccessful, Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt said Tuesday. Schmidt, speaking in Washington, D.C., warned his audience that the Internet will continue to create public policy challenges asÂ another billion users move online in the coming years. One reaction to a perceived loss of privacy and to new Internet users questioning repressive governments will be to clamp down on information, he said. "[That approach] appeals to people who prize order over everything else," said Schmidt, speaking at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's launch of a global think tank. "Those people exist everywhere." Schmidt acknowledged that a completely free flow of information over the Internet can be messy, but an unfettered Internet gives people the best information, he said. "The Internet has empowered people in a way we've never seen before. What we say at Google is, 'Don't bet against the Internet.'" he said In the coming years, governments will have to deal with a series of questions as more people come online, he said. The second billion Internet users will often compare the way their countries govern with other governments, he predicted. "They're going to see their government has been treating them badly," he said. "They're going to be annoyed." Some governments will struggle with how much free expression is too much, he said. Even in Western democracies, such as France and Germany, posting information about the Nazi Party is prohibited, Schmidt said, and other governments will struggle with what expression to allow. Schmidt said he hopes governments will err on the side of freedom, but free expression will continue to be a hot debate in coming years. "Have we gained more freedom than we want?" he said. "Freedom of choice may be more choice than people want." And with computers able to store more and more information, governments will struggle with the idea of privacy, Schmidt added. Many people will eventually regret rants or photos put online 20 or 30 years earlier. "What happens to personal privacy when everything that's created exists forever?" he said. "My daughter calls this 'too much sharing in your early life.'" The Internet creates paradoxes, Schmidt said. It creates a global marketplace, but it also allows people to segment themselves into tribes, he said. It allows the truth to emerge faster than with other mediums, but it also allows users to spread false information. "If you don't like a piece of information, spread some information," he said of the attitude of many Internet users. "People here wouldn't do that." When he heard groans from the Washington crowd, Schmidt amended his statement. "I should say, people in this room wouldn't do that," he said. Despite the policy questions, Schmidt encouraged the audience to work for ways to open information up to more people across the globe. "Globalization is fundamentally about universal access to information," he said. "This information revolution that's coming can be shaped."