Clinton sidesteps China's Internet jailings at web summit
An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Former US president Bill Clinton sidestepped talk of China's jailing of Internet political dissidents, but indicated web censorship could have a commercial backlash in the future.
"In China, I think, that so far the political system and restraint on political speech in the Internet has not seemed to have any adverse commercial consequences," Clinton said at the China Internet Summit.
"It will be interesting to see whether that is true of the future."
Clinton was in Hangzhou at the invitation of Yahoo Inc., which last month bought a one-billion-dollar 40 percent stake in Chinese online retailer Alibaba.com, the summit host.
"In America, the Internet is this wild cauldron of dissenting voices, we have now whole different media over the Internet with all the blog sites in America," he said.
posted by Fergie @ 9/11/2005 09:42:00 AM
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