China shuts the door on facebook

by Geoff Ebbs
Freedom of speech, movement, rights0
Zuckerberg is struggling to crack China
Zuckerberg is struggling to crack China

Foreign Policy magazine (FP) last week reported that Mark Zuckerberg has failed in his most recent attempt to get facebook into China.

Zuckerberg has been courting Chinese officials to promote facebook’s new geographic filtering mechanism that allows governments to manipulate the information available to their citizens.

FP reports that the Chinese government is more concerned about positioning Chinese software such as WeChat in the global market. We Chat currently has two thirds of a billion users. Facebook has over one and a half billion.

Foreign Policy (FP) magazine

Technology Review

http://fortune.com/2016/02/02/guess-which-messaging-app-just-scored-a-billion-users/

http://marketingtochina.com/wechat-blew-competitors/

https://www.wechat.com/en/

Geoff Ebbs

Geoff is an author, publisher and performer dedicated to building an independent media. He worked for Australian Consolidated Press as a Packer editor until starting his own media company in the mid-nineties. The Generator started life as a radio show on Byron Bay's Bay FM and continues as an umbrella for the Cage, the Cross and Great Notion. These digital assets have now been shared with EcoRadio.net, a radio show with a similar history.

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