Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Restricted Internetship


With the exploding and bizarre statistics of 137 million internet users, China is the next hotspot for the social networking websites such as, MySpace, Orkut and Facebook. But any such penetration to thoe world's largest Internet Black Hole is restricted greatly by their government in order to ensure decorum of the nation.Websites like Xiaonei, Kaixin, 360quan.com are the local social networking websites of China that have beaten Myspace, facebook and many more despite the strong attempts of the latter to rule the web world there. The very prime reason for this failure is the restricted internetship by the Chinese government to the users as they are not allowed to discuss or raise any political matters on such networks or make any remarks in regards for the same. Such kind of a Political censorship is like a bugbear for all such social networking sites where the core foundation is laid on the idea of a free exchange of information unless its patented or copyrighted or porn.
Myspace has localized itself into Myspace China, in terms of language and technology, but still seems to have relinquished itself to the local competitors. This is ensured by the Chinese Routing System by interrupting the website or downtrading it by slowing down the speed of it . The reason being the free exchange of ideas, that is not permissible by the Chinese government.How do these non Chinese native social networking sites localize themselves in the country is a mystery that is yet to be unveiled?