Twitter Steps Down From the Free Speech Party

Re:Twitter Steps Down From the Free Speech Party by cnphil on Thursday June 12, 2014 @08:31PM (#7886854)

I'm from China and I just don't know how to refute your last line. Google has been blocked for about half a month now, but average people would not feel a thing about it.

That's just sad.

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Re:Twitter Steps Down From the Free Speech Party by rurounijones on Friday June 13, 2014 @01:15AM (#7887526)

I think that is because China has such a home grown ecosystem for google/twitter etc. alternatives

Russia? Not so much I think.

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Re:Twitter Steps Down From the Free Speech Party by kalleboo on Friday June 13, 2014 @03:28AM (#7887757)

Yandex is the 4th largest search engine in the world and #1 in Russia. I'm pretty sure they have a large local social network as well but the name has slipped my mind.

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Re:Twitter Steps Down From the Free Speech Party by shrikant on Friday June 13, 2014 @06:51AM (#7888122)

VKontakte?

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Re:Twitter Steps Down From the Free Speech Party by bx_ on Thursday June 12, 2014 @10:39PM (#7887207)

But that's not on account of brainwashing, that's could be on account of having no need for it. I've lived in China for 5 years and have survived without Google fine. Could also be that most young/modern Chinese have an apathetic split-mind: don't give a shit about Google and don't give a shit about who is blocking them from it or why. They aren't uninformed, they just don't care.

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