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Well, China is kind of communist and so is Russia. Russia claims to be a democracy but (to my understanding) it's still nothing like an American/European democr
by ericmsimons 16y ago
Well, China is kind of communist and so is Russia. Russia claims to be a democracy but (to my understanding) it's still nothing like an American/European democracy. Russia also has its own knockoff social networks and search engines.
I've been told that Russia and China actually endorse these home grown equivalents because (big surprise) they require them to hand over all of the user data. China blocks Facebook but allows RenRen...and it now has 260 million users. That's more than a quarter of their population. China has to be cutting deals with them. And don't even get me started on Baidu vs Google...
- code_duck 16y agoChina is kind of capitalist, kind of socialist, and thus kind of fascist in that you have state-sanctioned corporate monopolies and industries. Same as Russia, I think. Regardless of the economic system, the one thing they're not, of course, is real democracies. I agree, the extent to which web services are copied by the Chinese for their own market is definitely an obstacle. They've done it with so many other products, I guess this is just another one.