Re:Google to Invest $10B in India
by chvid on Monday July 13, 2020 @07:27AM
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The great firewall of China came because China wanted to police US social media operating in China but weren't able to. That it acted as a major enabler for China's own social media boom is (at least initially) an unintended side-effect.
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Re:Google to Invest $10B in India
by mytailorisrich on Monday July 13, 2020 @07:46AM
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It is certainly not unintended.
Even without their will to control information for political purposes they would have not allowed such a key industry to be controlled by foreign players, and they have a strategy of creating a strong national industry in all sectors.
The ban of Facebook in 2009 was clearly a result of the Chinese authorities not being able to stop the spread of "misinformation" which they saw as a major factor in the Xinjiang riots of that year.
Re:Google to Invest $10B in India
by mytailorisrich on Monday July 13, 2020 @09:30AM
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It's part of a comprehensive strategy that includes creating domestic companies.