Facebook Was Shut Off in China Today

marco:

Ricky Van Veen:

They could have remained on if they had played by China’s rules and allowed the government to censor their content. But unlike Google and Yahoo and everybody else, Mark Zuckerberg refused to play by their rules and told them to go fuck themselves.

Hats off to you, Mark.

Wow. Facebook did something good. Nice job, Facebook.

How about we do some fact checking here?  This is unsourced by Ricky and I’m calling bullshit.  I see people I know are in China who are actively doing things on Facebook.  According to the WSJ, there were problems in only one city in China reaching Facebook and noone at Facebook has any idea why, so that probably means they aren’t making some sort of moral stance against China.

Since Facebook was vocal about the fact that they weren’t responsible for the arrest of a Moroccan computer engineer, I think they might have said something about this…