Comments on: China’s hot Facebook clone will cool down http://blogs.reuters.com/breakingviews/2011/04/18/chinas-hot-facebook-clone-will-cool-down/ Wed, 22 May 2013 21:12:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: kc10man http://blogs.reuters.com/breakingviews/2011/04/18/chinas-hot-facebook-clone-will-cool-down/comment-page-1/#comment-7110 kc10man Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:46:36 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/columns/?p=5796#comment-7110 Renren will do fine as long as it keeps buying out its local competitors like xiaonei and as long as the Chinese gov continues supporting them by blocking out any foreign companies. The only way Facebook can get into the market is to let the Chinese police Facebook and use it as a tool to hunt dissenters. If Facebook does agree to this, which they might, everyone should drop it immediately. When you create a Renren or QQ account, you have to give the company your personal email and password, so the Chinese state can police it too! Renren will do fine as long as it keeps buying out its local competitors like xiaonei and as long as the Chinese gov continues supporting them by blocking out any foreign companies.

The only way Facebook can get into the market is to let the Chinese police Facebook and use it as a tool to hunt dissenters. If Facebook does agree to this, which they might, everyone should drop it immediately.

When you create a Renren or QQ account, you have to give the company your personal email and password, so the Chinese state can police it too!

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