The Little Red (Face)Book

Wired by Steven Levy | May. 1, 2011 (Opinion)

When I spoke at Facebook about In The Plex recently, rumors were swirling that the social networking giant was about to enter China, supposedly in a partnership with the search engine Baidu. So I made sure that my talk to a dining hall full of FB’ers included the cautionary tale of what happened when Google met China. (An excerpt of the saga as detailed in my book appeared in Fortune.)

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Subjects: World, Business, Sci/Tech, Media
Topics: Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, China, Internet, Technology, Facebook
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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - May 1, 2011 - 10:10 AM PDT
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 by Barry Grossheim - May. 1, 2011

It seems likely the Facebook would face the same problems the Yahoo and Google dealt with in trying to expand into China. How important is the China market to Facebook and what compromises will they be willing to make in order to enter that market? Without freedom of speech and some right to privacy, what use is Facebook?

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 by Christine Walden - May. 20, 2011
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