But Michael Anti, a Chinese free-speech advocate, fears that state and commercial interests are colluding to produce Web 2.0 products that are apolitical but attractive.
In 2005 Microsoft deleted the blog of an activist, Michael Anti, and in 2006 Google launched a Chinese-based, censored version of its search engine (the company shut it down in 2010).
These days one of Germany's favourite American authors is Michael Moore, a virulently anti-Bush icon of the American left.
"I'm not Mr. Anti-Boston, " said Michael Tamarro, a lean 41-year-old Rhode Island physics professor who started the Exeter race.
But Avril Lavigne's idea of having 21 drummers stacked up the wall like a rock version of Celebrity Squares was inspired, and Ms Dynamite's anti-war duet with George Michael was one of the special moments that the Brits were once known for.
In his virulently anti-Bush film "Farenheit 911, " Michael Moore damningly transformed that brief moment in a Florida classroom into an agonizingly protracted period of indecision and cynical calculation.
Detectives with Scotland Yard's anti-terrorism branch spent part of Sunday interviewing Michael Rimmer, a former high school teacher who described Abdulmutallab as a "very devout" Muslim who had once expressed sympathy for Afghanistan's Taliban insurgency during a classroom discussion.
Or to underwrite New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's nanny statism or Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's anti-Second Amendment agenda?
Just yesterday, Poland's chief Rabbi, Michael Schudrich, was attacked in downtown Warsaw in what police say may have been an anti-Semitic provocation.
Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the health commissioners he has appointed, including Farley, New York has rolled out a slate of anti-smoking initiatives.
The legislation is known as the "Anti-Bloomberg" bill because the proposed ban in New York is supported by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Also in attendance at the meetings was Ambassador Ian Kelly, the U.S. Representative to the OSCE, as well as Ambassador Michael Kozak, a senior adviser on human rights who is serving as the acting special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism.
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