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Facebook's Zuckerberg meets China's propaganda chief
Posted On 21-03-2016 , 1:30 AM
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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a rare meeting Saturday with China's propaganda
chief, at a time when Chinese authorities are tightening control over their cyberspace.
Liu Yunshan told Zuckerberg that he hopes Facebook can share its experience with Chinese companies
to help "Internet development better benefit the people of all countries," the official Xinhua News
Agency reported. Zuckerberg was in Beijing to attend an economic forum.
China has called for the creation of a global Internet "governance system" and cooperation between
countries to regulate Internet use, stepping up efforts to promote controls that activists complain stifle
free expression.
Facebook and other Western social media including Twitter are banned in China. Zuckerberg has long
been courting China's leaders in a so far futile attempt to access the country with the world's largest
number of Internet users—668 million as of last year.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a panel discussion held as part of the China Development Forum at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Saturday, March 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
China has been increasing control over its Internet, dubbed the Great Firewall because it is already
heavily censored. Liu, a member of the ruling Communist Party's top leadership panel, the Politburo
Standing Committee, recently said that all Internet users must not cross the "baseline" when discussing
China's governance.
Chinese censors have introduced a slate of new regulations to better enable them to police digital
and social media as closely as traditional publications. The country's top Internet regulator has
repeatedly warned that an untamed cyberspace would pose a risk to domestic security and the
government should decide who to allow into "its house."
Source: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-facebook-zuckerberg-china-propaganda-chief.html
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