{"id":11998,"date":"2016-11-23T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=11998"},"modified":"2024-11-29T19:05:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T00:05:48","slug":"facebook-is-entering-a-minefield-with-new-chinese-censorship-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2016\/11\/23\/facebook-is-entering-a-minefield-with-new-chinese-censorship-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Is entering a minefield with new Chinese censorship tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Facebook may be a global behemoth with 1.7 billion users, but there’s one huge market in which it has virtually no presence: China. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has made no secret of his desire to enter the country, but so far his desire remains unrequited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the Facebook CEO appears to be planning<\/a> to offer the Chinese government a gift, in the hope of winning its affections. According to the The New York Times<\/em>, his team has developed a tool that will allow<\/a> the state to censor content. But doing so will open a Pandora\u2019s box that may be difficult to close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zuckerberg has reportedly said it is better to be \u201cenabling conversation\u201d even if some of the conversation is censored, and it\u2019s not surprising he would feel that way. His goal is to turn Facebook into a global town square. But what happens when some of the townsfolk suddenly disappear in the middle of the night, and you were the one who gave away their location?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowing that this kind of tool exists will also make it more difficult to stop other countries from asking to use it. What will Zuckerberg say if Russia or Turkey wants the same power of prior restraint? What does the global town square look like then?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note<\/strong>: This was originally published at Fortune, where I was a senior writer from 2015 to 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

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Facebook may be a global behemoth with 1.7 billion users, but there’s one huge market in which it has virtually no presence: China. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has made no secret of his desire to enter the country, but so far his desire remains unrequited. Now, the Facebook CEO appears to be planning to offer the Chinese … <\/p>\n

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