Comments for The Great Firewall of China http://thegreatfirewallofchina.wordpress.com Social Media and Civil Society Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:37:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Should Facebook Friend or Poke China? (Article Analysis) by William Nyikuli http://thegreatfirewallofchina.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/should-facebook-friend-or-poke-china-article-analysis/#comment-5 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:37:33 +0000 http://thegreatfirewallofchina.wordpress.com/?p=171#comment-5 If they do enter, it will probably have to be on the same arrangements as google did, with some mechanism for self-censorship.

I think as a private corporation, you have to obey the laws of the land you’re operating in, Facebook can always lobby the diplomats (probably they are) to encourage other countries to change their policies. Twitter for example, is adjusting in how it operates in different countries: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399428,00.asp

]]> Comment on Sina Weibo by Eli http://thegreatfirewallofchina.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/90/#comment-3 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:03:14 +0000 http://thegreatfirewallofchina.wordpress.com/?p=90#comment-3 As someone with limited access to Chinese media (my Mandarin is juvenile at best), I’d like to ask; Given Weibo’s role as ‘Chinese Twitter,’ what kind of discourse or changes have arisen in light of recent events that have established social media as part of ‘toolkit’ for social change and movements? As Twitter has succumb to pressures regarding censorship, have there been any similar overt, or more subtle changes in ‘domestic’ social media venues in China?

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