I was at breakfast with my Chinese friend the other day, when he said something that caught me by surprise. Somehow our conversation reached the topic of social media in China. I was informed that social media is banned in China. This includes Facebook, twitter, and YouTube. This fact is…
That seems so weird to me simply because those sites are essentially a way of life here in the United States! (kind of sad… but true) I find it incredibly weird when someone around our age proclaims that they don’t have a Facebook.
This also kind of relates to Evgeny Morozov’s TED talk/the article we just read about social media aiding dictatorship. I understand China doesn’t have a dictator, but I would assume that it would also aid communism according to Morozov’s arguments.
