> [The Chinese internet] seems to be in the process of shrinking even further, compressed onto a platform that is owned not by the people or the government, but

> [The Chinese internet] seems to be in the process of shrinking even further, compressed onto a platform that is owned not by the people or the government, but by a for-profit corporation As someone who does not use Facebook it is hard to not draw parallels. Faceboook might not be expanding like wechat, but they are taking over an ever larger part of how people interact with eachother and society.