Why is every social media banned in China?
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The ‘Great Firewall’ in China prevents Internet users from viewing or posting socially or politically sensitive content. The Great Firewall targets many foreign internet companies, sites, and services in particular.
Will China ever unban Google?
No. Google is freely accessible in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau. These countries are not behind mainland China’s Great Firewall.
Why did China block Facebook?
China. In China, Facebook was blocked following the July 2009 Ürümqi riots because protesters from the East Turkestan Independence were using Facebook as part of their communications network to organize attacks across the city, and Facebook denied giving the information of the protestors.
What do China use instead of WhatsApp?
WeChat
WeChat definitely is the number 1 alternative to WhatsApp in China. It is used by over a billion people daily – most of them in China.
Why is Facebook not allowed to operate in China?
Every country has laws to protect her citizens and China is no different. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google, all refuse to abide by Chinese Laws so they are not allowed to operate in China. China has 1.4+ billions of people and almost 75\% of her citizens use the Internet.
What is China doing to censor the media?
China likes to control the message and censor the media, some foreign companies play ball (Yahoo! and Microsoft) while others refuse (Google, Twitter, Wikipedia [1]). Google used to comply with Chinese censorship, then suddenly it withdrew and redirected all its search traffic to their Hong Kong site instead of the .cn site.
Why does China have barriers to foreign Internet companies entering its market?
So Chinese government has to set some barriers for foreign internet giants to enter the Chinese market in order to nurture its own version of internet corporations in the initial stage. This is just like a developing country setting up tarrifs to win the time for its own industry development.
Why isn’t Facebook more popular in China?
Facebook also was never really popular in China. Facebook may have more success in the Chinese market by taking a stake in Chinese social media firms in just the same way that Yahoo has a huge stake in Alibaba. [1]Wikipedia? but that isn’t blocked is it.