Beijing said Facebook is welcome back to China as long as they “respect China’s laws”
Will Facebook come back to China?
The Chinese government may say that they are “respectful of Chinese laws”.
Yesterday, at a press conference in preparation for the upcoming World Internet Conference, a Bloomberg reporter asked Ren Xianliang, deputy director of the China Cyberspace Administration (who oversees Internet governance) if the government would allow the 2American Internet giants to return to China.
Both companies still have commercial services in China, but Google has effectively closed its search engine in front of its consumers in 2010 and the leaders on the social network of Facebook since 2009.
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“The development of the Internet in China and a policy of openness. Regarding foreign foreign companies, as long as the laws of China, do not harm the interests of the country and do not harm the interests of consumers, we wish them their entry into China, where they can share together the benefits of China’s Internet development “.
The English version of People’s Daily, a party spokesman, published an article summarizing Ren’s remarks entitled “Facebook is welcome in China as long as it respects Chinese laws: authority.”
By the laws of China, Ren refers to the strict censorship apparatus of the country, which prevents researchers and broadcasters from information considered critical for the Communist Party. The position of Ren of the party line. In 2010, Google began to claim the withdrawal from China, Foreign Ministry spokesman Jiang Yu, a statement from a press conference that China’s internet is open, adding that the government ” welcomes international Internet companies to do business in China to the law. ”
Through a mix of algorithms and workers, national Internet companies are working with the government to curb online dissent and censor certain keywords, and its shared private user data with outside authorities are questioned . Meanwhile, China’s Great Firewall blocks consumer access to many foreign sites, not Facebook and Google, are not currently censored.
But this has not been engaged in the Internet markets to attempt to make inroads into China. Facebook has an office in Beijing, and many observers believe that the charging offensive of Mark Zuckerberg in China is an attempt to buy the right side of the government before launching a product there. Meanwhile, on a repeated that Google is trying to launch an application store in China.
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The publication of any consumer-oriented service in China, especially in research or social networks, which requires both censored companies for buyers and people in difficulty.
Some Chinese Internet users quickly criticized Ren’s comments. “I just want to ask: What kind of law are you asking to enforce?”
The Chinese Constitution says that citizens of the People’s Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech and the press, “a commentator writes ) on Sina Weibo, the social network Twitter-esque of China. “So if you define a law to filter information and keywords, does that mean it violates the principle of the Constitution?”
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