My part for the global Internet is very little. Only introducing the Internet to China. We had finished our first Internet connection to the United States in 1994. That brought China to the Internet.
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My greatest hope, and the thing I’ve been working for most of my life now, is that it will realize itself as being something that makes it possible for anybody to know anything that they’re capable of knowing. Which I think is a wonderful thought. Or that it will make it possible for anybody that has something important that other people should hear to say it, without any fear of being shut up or coerced or that sort of thing.