Social networking Facebook has agreed to open its service in China – a country of more than 500 million Internet users. The fact that such a contract has been signed, said Hu Yanping, director of the Data Center of China Internet (DCCI). According to him, in China, where access to Facebook is blocked since last year, with the support of Social Network will create a new site that is not associated with the domain facebook.com.
Facebook wants to break into China
According TechCrunch, social network could reach an agreement with China’s largest entertainment portal Sina or domestic search engine Baidu. If these rumors are true, then the competitors will be similar to Facebook local services – PengYou, QZone, 51.com, RenRen and Kaixin001.
Late last year, China visited Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, where he met with the co-founder of Baidu Robin Li, the head of the mobile operator China Mobile Tszyanchzhou Wang, CEO of Sina.com and Charles Chao head Alibaba Group Jack Ma. Prior to that, Zuckerberg, speaking at school Y Combinator startups to budding entrepreneurs, said of the Chinese: “This is a very important part of the world. How can you connect the world, if miss 1.6 billion people?”.
Internet in China is subjected to strict censorship: in this country is completely denied access to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, and in February, has been blocked and social network LinkedIn for business contacts. Those human rights defenders who attempt to circumvent the ban by connecting through a foreign proxy server, and coordinating their activities in social media, often in forced labor camps.
Last month, Google announced that the PRC authorities block the work of mail service Gmail, trying to quell a wave of dissedentskogo movement in China. Then, the Internet giant said that users were having problems sending and receiving messages, as well as they could not mark them as unread.
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