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What an embarrassingly delusional comment! And quite deceptive too.

China, under no circumstances, no matter where the data is stored will allow Facebook or any other social/news media to have a presence in their country. What part of reciprocity do you not understand?

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Bing is accessible from China. FB and Twitter must comply with censorship rules and storage of user data in China, among other things, to operate in China. Google was operating and accessible in China until China made clear the rules for them to follow. Google decided it couldn't follow they they pulled out the search engine business from China. China didn't force Google to sell. Censorship is bad but that is another issue.

And to do personal attack doesn't make you look smart.

Yeah, I think that was their mistake. Though I personally commend Google for standing up for their ideals at that time as to how they thought about information and access to it.

But it is not like PRC makes it easy to do business there. There is a well known episode of a breach orchestrated by PLA. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora

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