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What's interesting about the timing of this possible censorship is that it comes on a day when we posted an article that reflects negatively on Bill Gates. It appears that his empire carries out vendettas by deterring access to websites not favorable to their overlord. We did receive a complaint through our contact form from a reader listing the e-mail address:
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All of the information about the cleanliness of our site, and the potential false tip, was easily obtained by our tech staff within minutes. Why couldn't a behemoth like Microsoft do the same?
This appears to be the latest tactic the establishment will use to shut down access to alternative voices, making visitors believe that the site is "harmful" to their computer. We have been informed by Microsoft that this is basically a guilty-until-proven-innocent situation, since we certainly weren't contacted to counter any claim in advance of the warning they posted.
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