By ShaMao'er (not verified) - Mon, 04/30/2007 - 03:58.
While the observations on the evils of censorship are all very true and relevant, the truth is that it is unlikely that MySpace China will find many users. There seems to be (this is from my own observation of Chinese friends and acquaintances and not based on any actual stats) a move away from the foreign owned sites towards domestic ones.
Baidu is by far a more popular search engine than Google, in fact I often need to force my staff to conduct research on Google. QQ is a much more popular chat service than MSN or Skype and in fact I recently had a friend tell me she had to set up a QQ account (even though she doesnt like the evil software that gets into your machine and can never be cleansed) because so many of her Chinese friends refused to use MSN.
It seems to be a kind of passive nationalism thing. I ask people why they use Baidu instead of Google and they say because it is Chinese and understands what Chinese want. The same of MSN and I suspect Myspace.
Chinese unlikely to use it anyway
While the observations on the evils of censorship are all very true and relevant, the truth is that it is unlikely that MySpace China will find many users. There seems to be (this is from my own observation of Chinese friends and acquaintances and not based on any actual stats) a move away from the foreign owned sites towards domestic ones.
Baidu is by far a more popular search engine than Google, in fact I often need to force my staff to conduct research on Google. QQ is a much more popular chat service than MSN or Skype and in fact I recently had a friend tell me she had to set up a QQ account (even though she doesnt like the evil software that gets into your machine and can never be cleansed) because so many of her Chinese friends refused to use MSN.
It seems to be a kind of passive nationalism thing. I ask people why they use Baidu instead of Google and they say because it is Chinese and understands what Chinese want. The same of MSN and I suspect Myspace.