How Chinese Officials Like Banned Facebook. Chinas Communist authorities ban their own people from accessing major global social media sites including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and more. But when it comes to self-promotion they are increasingly keen users themselves. The official news agency Xinhua, the Communist Partys official mouthpiece the Peoples Daily and state broadcaster CCTV all have Twitter accounts, as do a host of city and provincial authorities. When the city of Hangzhou, renowned for its lakes and canals looked to raise its international profile it turned to Facebook,the worlds most-popular social network. Chinas internet users,who now number 618 million have been blocked from using it since 2009.
Posted on: Tue, 20 May 2014 09:46:15 +0000