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Ballmer Favors Torture for Lawyers

After a series of Chinese lawyers have been imprisoned and tortured and "gone missing" for speaking up for their clients in China, our friend Steve Ballmer still "doesn't understand" why Google is upset about break-ins into Chinese lawyers email accounts. "I don’t think there was anything unusual," he says.

Perhaps torture of lawyers is routine at Microsoft; it is a bit unusual at Google.