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Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates said on Wednesday that government attempts to censor Web sites or blogs would fail since the banned information could get out in defiance of official efforts. The spread of private e-mail means online users could distribute banned news despite government injunctions, he told a news conference. "You may be able to take a very visible Web site and say that something shouldn't be there, but if there's a desire by the population to know something, it's going to get out," he said. However, Gates said Microsoft, the world's biggest computer software company, had to meet legal requirements of the countries where it does business. Microsoft pulled the blog, or Web log, of a critic of the Chinese government in December after getting a government order to do so. Brad Smith, Microsoft's chief counsel, said on Tuesday that company was creating rules to deal with government complaints about Web sites and blogs Microsoft hosted. Gates was in Lisbon for a Microsoft-sponsored forum on how to use Internet technology to make the public sector more effective. Copyright 2006 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. And, discuss this and other topics in our forum at http://telecom-digest.org/forum (or) http://telecom-digest.org/chat/index.html For more news and headlines from Reuters, please go to: http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/news-today.html

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