Mark Zuckerberg’s China trip

As the founder of facebook, world’s leading social network, Mark Zuckerberg can’t say his trip in China has no special meaning. Although facebook has over 500 million active users who login facebook everyday, but it is currently isolated from 400 million Chinese Internet users by the great firewall, making its entry strategy harder than ever.

Mr. Zuckerberg couldn’t just ignore these huge amount of potential users, however there are enough lessons he should learn from many foreign IT companies’ failure of developing localized products and services.

Zuckerberg’s first visit is Baidu’s headquarter. Unlike Google, Baidu is open for deep cooperation with Chinese bureaucracy and self-censorship, which helps Baidu to achieve the search engine market leader in China. It will be unsurprised that if facebook is about to enter Chinese market, it needs to find the way to get Chinese government's access. Moreover, a domain name of ‘www.facebook.cn’ will probably be activated like ‘Google.cn’ with all servers and user data being kept in China for censorship.

On the bright side, facebook is not unfamiliar with Internet censorship. It already has a censorship team built up. But it is still too far away to meet up the new condition. Take Sina Weibo, the biggest mircoblog service in China, as example. Sina Weibo has a very large censorship team (specific number is unknown, but it is really big, otherwise they can’t deal with mass traffic), 24 hours & 7 days online. An more extreme case is renren.com, a copycat of facebook with a former name Xiaonei, which is notorious for censorship and block user account. On December 10, 2010, renren.com block all search and input of the Chinese family name ‘Liu’, in order to prevent any information about 2010 Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo and the ceremony.

For facebook, censorship is definitely the most difficult task, but still can’t grantee that facebook will defeat its Chinese competitors such as renren.com, Qzone. facebook still gets a long way to go.

空椅子的直播

2010年12月10，週五，英國格林威治時間中午12點，挪威奧斯陸市政廳。上百嘉賓如往年一樣齊聚慶祝一年的諾貝爾和平獎得主。但今年，這位得主不但自己無法親自前來，而且他的家人親屬也都被軟禁家中，甚至一切可能代表他的人都在機場被攔截，諾貝爾委員只好安置了一把沒有人坐的椅子。

從年初推特上流出劉曉波被提名到得獎，再到一張空椅子的頒獎典禮，天朝在封鎖和控制言論上達到了一個巔峰。GFW封鎖了各大英文新聞網站；中宣部下令嚴防任何有關和平獎的言論；御用文人在網上紛紛出動發表「西方國家干涉中國內政」和「帝國主義亡我之心不死」論。

已經被GFW封鎖的維基解密顯示，在劉曉波得獎前，中國外交部北美大洋洲司副司長丁孝文會見美國大使時，稱中國法律公正，並稱最基本的人權是「食物和住所」，中國在這方面取得了巨大的進步。然而，天朝這些年在這些最基本的人權保障上也是開始倒退。追求高GDP和高貿易順差導致人民幣濫發，通貨膨脹的壓力日益沉重，物價飛漲讓平民百姓不得開始不精打細算，節衣縮食過日子；沒有媒體和公民的監督的官員勾結開發商肆無忌憚的拆平一座座民房。不願開放胸懷聽取世界各國批評的中國，在大國的道路上越走越極端，逐漸成為孤家寡人。

在有幸親眼目擊直播後，我要特別感謝校內/人人網的管理員。作為一名負責審查言論的網絡管理員，他/她忠於自己的職責，堅決執行中宣部的命令，在今日成功的把關。除了設立包括「劉」姓在內的敏感詞審查外，還千辛萬苦的從千萬個用戶中篩選言論不當的用戶，將其處以封號。我剛剛在人人主頁上發表說，我想在我老了後能有幸對自己的子孫說自己收看了諾獎直播。感謝人人管理員，十幾分鐘後我便可以在這個故事中添加一個反角，讓他們能有更多的體會。

中國互聯網狀況白皮書

6月8日，中國大陸國務院新聞辦公室（簡稱國新辦）發布了《中國互聯網狀況》白皮書，文中講述了網絡在大陸的普及率，”保障“公民網絡言論自由，維護網絡安全和國際交流，洋洋1萬3千字，這裡就不再敘述了。隨後中宣部下達了轉載此文和嚴格把守評論審查的規定。

但本人要很負責的說，這篇文章本身就是宣傳，它既非當前大陸互聯網實際狀況的報告，也不是針對美國歐盟提出的將大陸網絡審查提交到WTO的反駁。它的核心內容說白了就是：現在中國（大陸）的互聯網發展的很好，為了國家的安全不免要做點審查工作，大家要配合。

中國大陸公民真的有網絡言論自由嗎？

很明顯，敢在門戶網站的評論裡說沒有的都不會被審查通過。大陸網民更沒有依法享有言論自由，除了在憲法中提及言論自由外，其他的法律法規都是在加強所謂的”網絡安全“而限制言論自由。 網友稱：”法律不過一張紙。“

白皮書還有哪些內容沒有提及？

雖然這些東西我已經說過很多遍了，但是考慮到很多牆外的網友並不知道，我便簡略列舉下：

GFW，全名互聯網防火牆，中國大陸互聯網萬惡之首。常言道兼聽則明，偏聽則暗。GFW封鎖了大陸網民獲取外界聲音的渠道。

五毛，全名網絡評論員。五毛是混入普通網民內部的政府人員，在評論論壇中引導輿論。五毛最傑出的成果之一就是在今年三月集體配合新華通稿大肆攻擊Google中國。

審查。大陸媒體常常引用一句”依法審查“的話來為其辯護。而其中，保護兒童遠離色情更是一個屢試不爽的藉口了。 如果為了色情而審查網絡，封殺網站，那麼其結果也無非就如下面這個視頻一樣從色情一直審查到政治批評和言論自由了。

跨省追捕。在網絡上發布“不當言論”，嚴重者將會受到網警跨省追捕。在網絡上發表任何言論，用戶的IP地址都會被記錄在案，通過IP地址可以鎖定全國任何一台電腦。這也導致網上流行謝絕跨省的“免責聲明”，避免自己因“不當言論”而惹來麻煩。

 

正如同北韓在金氏家族的迫害下卻盛讚自己是“世界上最幸福的國家”一樣，在大陸沒有互聯網言論自由卻還要“御用文人”和五毛歌功頌德，這便是白皮書可笑之處了。

中国代表们将如果在世界人权大会上回答

During the recent Universal Periodic Review of China's human rights record before the UN Human Rights Council, China represtative said:” There is no censorship.” (2009)


But the Chinese official comment to Google closing Google.cn is:” Censorship is necessary because it is required by Chinese law.” This is far more rediculous, against its own word to human right and free expression in UN Human Rights Council in 2009. This is not the first time the Chinese government lied. Well, every government will lie according to diplomatic requirment and social stability. But this one is much more than that, is to maintain its ruling power because it is so afraid to lose. Ok, I am not saying anything, I love China.


Google关闭g.cn网站的风波是沸沸扬扬，中国政府对着全世界的媒体振振有词的说：“自我审查是不容商议的法律要求。”

有意思的是，去年中国代表团在联合国人权理事会针对中国的人权状况进行普遍定期审查的会议上所作回应是：中国没有审查制度。


虽然。说谎常常是外交上的必要手段。但这次说谎也太离谱了。你可以说中国只审查色情暴力，何必把话说的这么绝呢？以后就算是说我们只审查sex，又如何使全世界人信服？中国在强硬的回应Google停审事件的同时，媒体造出一种中国自强的舆论，却不知此事已经连同中国许多反人权事件在慢慢的损害中国在国际上的大国形象。一个大国，不是说GDP多人家就会拜服。像这种出尔反尔的龌龊行为，只会让人生厌。

Final weapon for Google to strike back

Google has been losing its reputation since Chinese media used all negative news and comments for it. The four China portal websites: Sina, Sohu, Netease and Tencent, have used news and comments from Xinhua.net(the Chinese government media website) about how Google works for the US and be against to the Chinese  Internet censorship, law, and Chinese people.

Most Chinese people don’t know whether Google is really against which part of Chinese law, but they put this event in a way of Google is the tool of US government to fight against Chinese. Then nationalism people shouted on Internet:
Google, get the fuck out of China! (谷歌滚出中国)

As in this situation, Google has no face to continue the business in China. China will win a battle if Google compromises, at least Chinese media will thinks so, and Chinese people will follow them to think so. If Google leaves China, the Chinese media will think we win again, we drive the intruder away. Therefore, no matter what the final situation is, Chinese can always find a way to self-complacency.

However, is there a way to help Google to get out of this dead end? Is there a final weapon to let Google strike back? Absolutely yes: the list of censorship.

Censorship is the reason why Google want to leave China in the first place, Chinese government always persist in saying that censorship is necessary because it is legal and suitable for China Internet. But they never give an example of a censorship is against which part of Chinese law.

Every country has its own censor way to avoid sex and violence. But China is more afraid of politics. Like the media covered up the negative news about Hu Haifeng(胡海峰), son of current Chinese chairman Hu Jiangtao, had involved the corruption in Namibia. These negative political staff including civil rights, corruption, comments about China government, are truly destructive because more and more Chinese people are unsatisfied with government and very easily influenced by these negative things.

Once Chinese people have get this list of censorship, they will realize how many things the government have been lying to them. And they are very easy to be proved. Just go to an engine site, like baidu.com, type in any censorship word into it, and you will get no result because they are telling the truth. Then people will ask government to explain these censorship. Google will become hero again.