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Blocking Facebook and Google may have been brutalist censorship at first. But as a policy for encouraging innovation it is pure genius. Will be interesting to
by chvid 10y ago
Blocking Facebook and Google may have been brutalist censorship at first. But as a policy for encouraging innovation it is pure genius.
Will be interesting to see when/if some of the Chinese social networks become popular outside China.
- yolesaber 10y agoIt's still brutal censorship even now
- brador 10y agoIt is, but it also killed a monopoly, allowing competition in the sector to flourish.
- wsc981 10y agoTuenti still seems pretty popular in the Spanish speaking world, even when competing against Facebook: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0144929X.2014.993428#/doi/abs/10.1080/0144929X.2014.993428 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0144929X.2014.993...
- icebraining 10y agoYet they shut it down this year.
- Unklejoe 10y agoSo would it be safe to assume that you support Donald Trump in his plans to force companies to remain in the USA by increased tariffs on imports? I don't necessarily agree or disagree, because it's really out of my realm, but it seems like a similar approach. Block competition from outside the country...
- chvid 10y agoI cannot vote in the coming us election. I just find it slightly ironic that had Facebook and Google (and probably the us government) been accommodating for Chinese requests to censor uygurs during their uprising some 10 years ago then the situation likely would have been completely different. Now Facebook and Google are missing out of a big high growth market - a market that ultimately may foster companies and innovation strong enough to challenge us social media dominance.
- stcredzero 10y agobrutalist I suspect you would benefit from googling this word.
- tomaskafka 10y agoThis is also what is Germany doing with privacy laws. Datacenters in EU, no Google analytics ...
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