# Microsoft maintains China market access under local content and filtering rules

Date: 2010

## The fact

Through the 2000s–2010s Microsoft operated in China under local-content, partnership, and filtering requirements while [Gates](/people/bill-gates) was chairman and China interlocutor.

## Context

Neighbouring 2004 EU decision is a different regulator. Neighbouring foundation China health grants are a later parallel. He did not write a Cyberspace Administration statute.

EU 2004 is neighbouring Western antitrust. Foundation China grants are neighbouring health finance.

Bill Gates was Microsoft CEO until January 2000, chairman until February 2014, then a technical adviser until 2020, and a Gates Foundation co-chair. That is not authorship of every Windows copy, every GAVI dose, or every IRS schedule. Melinda French Gates is a different person. Bill Clinton is PER-000772, a different person. A pledge is not a coverage rate. A docket is not a personality.

## Evidence and sources

Microsoft carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

## What is established and what is not

Established: Microsoft China operations under filtering rules during Gates’s chair years, independently reported.

Not established: that he authored the Golden Shield, or a unique later dissent coefficient from a Beijing MOU.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Microsoft localised. Chinese regulators required filters. Users sat behind them.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Microsoft maintains China market access under local content and filtering rules, not a later speech about Microsoft maintains China market access under local content and filtering rules.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Microsoft maintains China market access under local content and filtering rules on 2010-01-15 is not a licence to treat every later Microsoft communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Microsoft maintains China market access under local content and filtering rules into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He was chairman and China interlocutor. Microsoft localised. Chinese regulators required filters. Users sat behind them. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Bill Gates: https://factrail.ai/people/bill-gates

## Drivers

- Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection
- Digital-Rights and Platform-Power Regulation: https://factrail.ai/drivers/tech-digital-rights-regulation

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-china-idUSTRE60E2K420100115
- https://www.microsoft.com/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ms-china-censorship