China Keeps An Eye On Facebook
July 14, 2010
No one could have realistically expected that Google was going to be the only electronic medium that the Chinese wanted to keep an eye on. The uprisings in Iran taught all the despots that information is power and control. It’s precisely that kind of control the Chinese won’t relinquish easily—not to Google and certainly not to Facebook.
So it’s not a shock that a Chinese backed government think tank has accused social media sites like Facebook of being agents of Western governments and called for stepped up scrutiny of them.
What doesn’t help is U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates saying that these new mediums are a “huge strategic asset.” That kind of talk gives China all the ammunition they need to keep an eye on Facebook and other social networking sites.
US companies, although powerful in their national borders, are not on a par with countries we assert.
Rob Starr, July 14, 2010
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China has it’s laws too… I know some of them might not be to everyone’s taste, but what I really dislike is all of these ‘them and us’ type news articles… 🙁