Bill Gates suggested on Tuesday that a US law governing how internet companies deal with censorship overseas could help to resolve recent concerns stemming from their activities in China. However, he came out against an outright ban on working in such countries, and argued that the internet was “a tool for openness” that could not be thwarted by official attempts to block information...Mr Gates said that, unlike Yahoo, Microsoft does not maintain any servers inside China, and so does not risk being forced to hand over personal information about any of its users. He added that Microsoft had only blocked the websites of users of its blogging service when told to do so by local authorities.