Facebook’s Zuckerberg meets China’s propaganda chief
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a panel discussion held as part of the China Development Forum at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing today.
BEIJING » Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has had a rare meeting with China’s propaganda chief, even as Chinese authorities are tightening control over their cyberspace.
The official Xinhua News Agency reported that Liu Yunshan told Zuckerberg that he hopes Facebook can share its experience with Chinese companies to help “Internet development better benefit the people of all countries.”
Facebook and other Western social media including Twitter are banned in China. Zuckerberg has long been courting China’s leaders in a so far futile attempt to access the country with the world’s largest number of Internet users.
He was in Beijing today to attend an economic forum.
China has been stepping up Internet control and censorship. Liu recently said all Internet users must not cross the “baseline” when discussing China’s governance.
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What good is Facebook? I never liked it since they appeared to be “spying” on me. Anything online is fraught with abuse and it starts with social media. I have always stayed with Twitter as I have tweeted almost 3,000 times since July 14, 2010. Sometimes even Twitter though has Internet police. One time in 2010 or 2011 I was tweeting a lot about Obama and somehow my account got shuttered. It’s very okay now: I don’t use it much for business. Just for getting news. If you like, you can follow me @SuperBowlLii, yes that is correct, Super Bowl 52, to be played in 2018 in Minnesota. The name shown on my Twitter avatar is the same as here: Jonathan Patrick. The avatar is my favorite pet, an opaque Love Bird, in my hand, resting on her back. I had to wait 8 long years for that to happen, and I am glad that my lungs still work and I am able to breathe the clean fresh air. Don’t know how it will be in two years time, except I will be two years older, as will everyone else. Gee I wonder if Betfy White will still be alive LOL !!!! 😉
My hope is that The New England Patriots will play The Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl LII.
Although my second choice is The Tennessee Titans versus The Los Angeles Rams.
Because obviously like everyone else from Hawaii, we like Marcus Mariota and I lived in the LA area for four years.
Facebook has relentlessly sent emails to no avails and finally stopped only about a week ago. Kept deleting it from my phishing page.