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Social networking outfit Facebook is starting to think that giving free speech to countries which are not used to it is a bad idea.
The outfit's Washington lobbyist said that Facebook could block content in some countries because there has been "too much, maybe, free speech".
Adam Conner told the Wall Street Journal that Facebook is occasionally held in uncomfortable positions because "now we're allowing too much, maybe, free speech in countries that haven't experienced it before."
The comments have followed uprisings in the Middle East, especially after Egypt blocked social media sites.
It seems that rather than being happy in its role in removing autocratic regimes, Facebook is worried that its free speech policy might be locking it out of the lucrative Chinese market.
Facebook is blocked in China, but it was reported this month that it has held talks with potential partners about entering the market.
To do this, it would have to obey China's extensive internet censorship system and renounce all this free speech talk. It would be legally required to hand user data to Chinese authorities.
Conner's comments seem to suggest that Facebook would do this in a heartbeat.
Debbie Frost, Facebook's director of international communications, told the WSJ that Facebook was studying and learning about China but has made no decisions about if, or how, it will approach it.
Many are not fooled by the sideshow, of course, but neither are they privy to the real show. To be able to see and yet be powerless to resolve is what drives all onto their going nowhere real platforms. To be divided, to have the knowledge but not its empowerment/experience which is merely to have the power but not what the power is truly for, oka lacking its true knowledge/purpose. Humanity’s problems were never, ever, meant to be solutioned by us. We are meant to learn from our errors and not to own them. To learn, we must be able to witness absolutely and not relatively. To not react which is merely discriminating from one’s past or one’s future. Unless and until abosluteness of discrimination is attained, humility must be one’s duty.
As it stands, our problems are now beyond our control let alone to rectify for the beginning of The Ending has started [since the previous century]. When The Bookie and His Genetics will be “solutioned” is a matter of the timing and not the time. As things stand, surely it cannot be more than a few generations. Until then, things are going to get worse for most and all because the reality/Reality for those who are pure within their desire is getting clearer/more concrete. Have true confidence through being able to perceive/see Reality, thereby immunising oneself from the nonsense which seeks to own one’s Attention. Be your own master and not be others’ master which is merely being mastered and do not take sides on matters you lack true discrimination of if only because doing so is akin to being on the side of Absoluteness whose duty is to finally remove those that are of no real/Evolutionary use, those who constantly discriminate for their conditionings or ego, those who are always turning everything into a religion. By all means be, as Shakespeare suggested, “an Actor on The Stage”, but never try to change/own the script because doing so will propel one towards becoming a mere prop in finality. Do not own and nothing will be able to own you, especially in contemporary “modern” times. There is nothing modern about being stupid or dumb because Truth is what it is, like it, believe it, or not. There are enough of those who will be the stupid-cum-dumb and for their sacrifice, one’s gratitude is not to waste their efforts by joining them and their constant quest for the myriad of religiosities, oka being left/dumb sided or right/stupid sided.
Websites such as http://twitter.com and http://www.miius.com are much better websites to respect user data privacy.