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Question: Why did China ban Facebook?
Posted by Piggerman
I really do not understand why you worry that Facebook
is blocked, China has QQ.com which is basically the same
thing, post pictures, make friends, play games, leave
comments. Youtube is another one which is blocked, this
is ok also because China has Youku.com which has even
more videos and a lot of the same videos as Youtube.
Posted by Profi
I think the reason might be the amount of
money that rolls through these websites
through advertising. Facebook is worth
billions of dollars. This money might want to
be kept in country, If it rolls through google
or facebook all that money is going back to
America.
Posted by Eagle89
Banning Facebook is silly.
So many Asian countries/places use Facebook
like Sinagpore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Hong
Kong. And look their economy ain't destroyed
by Facebook. In fact it makes them more
connected to the world. Chinese people in
these countries can contact all their old
college buds/ex work colleagues in Canada,
Austrilia, UK and US. And funny enough a lot
Chinese people in these countries have no
idea about QQ and renren. Or they do know
but won't bother with it.
Posted by Uberche
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The sites were banned for two reasons 1 - They didn't allow the
Chinese government to control what was allowed and 2 - The
Chinese are unable to compete on a level playing field so they just
stole the technology from the Western companies and then banned
them. Facebook became Renren, Twitter became Sina Microblogs,
Youtube became Youku, Google became Baidu.
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The lie that it was because of the protests was a joke, MSN could
be used to organize protests just as easily but it wasn't banned. So
could all kinds of other services that weren't banned.
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You grow popular in China in the communication industry and you
don't allow the Chinese government to censor and control what is
seen, you will be banned. If you threaten a Chinese company for
control of the Chinese market, especially in the communication
industry, you will be banned. Such is business in China.
Posted by Stewart11
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Facebook has been censored by the
Chinese government in reaction to the
Xinjiang riots. The Chinese government
run the internet through a National
firewall or filter this prevents almost any
Chinese computer within China to access
websites they deem unacceptable.