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Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel by skissane on Sunday July 12, 2020 @08:16PM (#23815867)
Very few countries currently block access to Facebook. (China, Iran, Syria, North Korea.)

And I think the situation is similar for other US-based social media sites such as Twitter.

But, this list could very easily grow. There are almost 200 countries in the world, and about one-third of those are authoritarian regimes, and at least another third could be classified as semi-authoritarian. That's a lot of countries which might be inclined to ban US social media and could do so in the future.

I think China could export its own social media services to authoritarian and semi-authoritarian governments in other parts of the world – a lot of those governments would be very interested in social media offerings with built-in tools to enable censorship and information manipulation.

Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel by Iwan-Zotow on Monday July 13, 2020 @10:21AM (#23821053)
> social media offerings with built-in tools to enable censorship and information manipulation

ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, Zuckerberg likes to have a word with you