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I posted the original Guardian story yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26825990 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26825990 but perhaps because o
by chalst 6y ago
I posted the original Guardian story yesterday
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26825990 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26825990
but perhaps because of my lousy copyediting of the title it only attracted five upvotes. This follow-up story seems pretty good and the title was not difficult to squeeze under 80 chars.
The story of Facebook treating India's ruling BJP has attracted a fair bit of coverage - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=facebook%20bjp&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... - but the story suggests FB values good connections with the quasi-fascist ruling party over the risk of yet more damage to its reputation.
- saltedonion 6y agoI feel like Facebook has realized that if they win in a major market and becomes a monopoly, reputation no longer matters as they are dominant anyway. This is perhaps the logic behind nonintervention.
- baybal2 6y ago> but the story suggests FB values good connections with the quasi-fascist ruling party over the risk of yet more damage to its reputation. Do people need a better example? He literally orders Facebook employees to read communist propaganda. https://amp.smh.com.au/technology/mark-zuckerberg-snapped-with-chinese-president-xi-jinpings-book-20141209-1233er.html https://amp.smh.com.au/technology/mark-zuckerberg-snapped-wi...
- reducesuffering 6y ago> “literally orders” From the article: ‘"I bought this book [Governance of China, by Xi] for my colleagues as well," Mr Zuckerberg was quoted as telling Mr Lu.’
- meragrin_ 6y ago"I want them to understand socialism with Chinese characteristics." "I want" to an employee of Facebook from Zuckerberg might as well be an order. Whether that was said to the colleagues is another matter. Zuckerberg may well have been just sucking up to the Chinese.