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Nope, he didn’t say that, but what he did was tantamount to doing so. According to this report:

Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, took the rare step of standing up for arch-rival Google today as he argued that state censorship was no reason for technology companies not to do business in China.

It’s well known in the IT circles that Yahoo, Google and Microsoft had to comply with Chinese government demands of censorship in its search engines just to be able to do business there. According to the same article:

…Yahoo provided the Chinese with details leading to the arrest and sentencing of a journalist; Microsoft has barred a blog critical of the government and launched a portal blocking the use of words such as ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’. Now Google has weeded out websites that China does not like.

The message Yahoo, Google and Microsoft just sent us: Money is more important than the freedom of speech.

Such great American companies, aren’t they?