Ironically, Microsoft’s founder and chairman, Bill Gates, has been an enthusiastic advocate of this view. Just last October, he said: “There’s really no way to, in a broad sense, repress information today, and I think that’s a wonderful advance we can all feel good about….[T]his is a medium of total openness and total freedom, and that’s what makes it so special.”
具有讽刺意味的是，微软的创立者和主席比尔·盖茨一直是这种观点狂热的倡导者。就在去年10月，他说过：“今天从广义上来讲，确实无法再压制信息了，我认为这是值得所有人高兴的奇妙的进步…互联网是完全公开和彻底自由的载体，这也正是互联网的特别之处。”