Challenged by the rise of Chinese tech, America’s famed Silicon Valley seeks Washington's help to protect its interests
The Shock Doctrine, No Logo, and No is Not Enough
Like Schmidt, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook also appears to run on a Chinese fear ticket. The intention, it seems, is to continually diminish the endless calls for the breaking up of Facebook and to prevent the end of the tech giant’s monopoly over the world of social media. "China is building its own internet focused on very different values, and is now exporting their vision of the internet to other countries," Zuckerberg said"Until recently, the internet in almost every country outside China has been defined by American platforms with strong free expression values. There's no guarantee these values will win out. A decade ago, almost all of the major internet platforms were American.
But in the past, the same Zuckerberg has also aggressively lobbied Chinese officials, including the country’s President Xi Jinping, to expand Facebook’s reach in the world’s most populous country, evenAlso, Facebook and some other top American tech companies have been accused of allowing Russian meddling in US elections.
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