Why Facebook, one of the most successful social media program, is not welcomed in China; we even cannot set up a twitter account, and we cannot watch videos on YouTube. China’s government prefers to let the local company to copy the idea and to publish almost the same product rather than let we use those “famous” social media, or even cooperate with those successful companies. When I want to watch TV programs such as <24 hours> or <Hero>, I cannot find on YouTube because I even cannot browse it. But when I want to watch it through China’s video website, I cannot find any of them; the reason is: the government wants to protect the local TV companies. But everyone knows that this is not good for company’s improvement. We cannot say that because they do better than us so we keep them out of our door, whether it based on protection or other purpose.
Another reason that the social media like Facebook and twitter cannot be success in China is they are not under government’s control, which means there might be something, which is negative about the government. China is not a country with speech freedom, so we cannot talk a lot of things about history or about present government, which limit a lot about the topics we can choose to talk about. A country’s develop does not depends on percentage change in GDP, is more about how citizens get satisfied about the government; if the government closed the only door (because the public media is also controlled by the government) to speech freedom, there will never be a place that people can talk without worries, talk everything they want to discuss about.
Through the program, I want to figure out the real reason why China do not allowed those social media to come in to China’s internet market, and more importantly, figure out a solution can change the government’s idea about social media; I know it is hard and time wasting, but I want to have a try, try to build up a better internet, not only the social media, using environment.
Yuhao - In this first blog post you are supposed to introduce your entrepreneurial idea. It needs to be some sort of product or service. I can definitely understand why you are frustrated with the censorship in China, is there a business opportunity there because of it?
回复删除You point out a phenomena, which has existed in China for a long time. It is not easy to solve this problem, because it not only relates to social media, but also Chinese government. I am very interested in your idea. You support to explain more about how you are going to deal with this problem. What you are going to do. As you say, China is not a speech freedom country. It is good to build up a better internet, but how can you make Chinese government accept your idea.
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