China Wants to Buy Facebook

Forbes ^ | Jul. 3 2011 | Gordon G. Chang

[Daffynition]

[WKUHilltopper]

Facebook now new and improved digital Mao’s Red Book.

[Astronaut]

Facebook is a dream for the ChiComs, or any intelligence service. Hundreds of millions of idiots voluntarily creating a huge database of personal information for the government to access. I’m sure our own corrupt Homeland Security Department monitors Facebook all day long. Just one more link in the chain that enslaves a once proud and free people.

[Jonty30]

Aw man, I’m gonna have to move my anti-China rants.

[Poison Pill]

I’d trust the Chinese with my data about as much as I’d trust Zuckerberg. Which is zero.

[RikaStrom]

Oh that is a disaster waiting to happen. Facebook is a government's dream. Every person that posts all of their information, etc. The data mining that China could do, and the damage done from that would just be.... a nightmare.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

How’s that “free trade” thing working, America?

[Lakeshark]

Heck, the current owners are to the left of the chi-coms, this could be an improvement.........

[Sprite518]

If they have to say,

“Business Insider tells us there is “little need” for concern about Chinese censors looking at the photos and postings of the 700 million people who trust Facebook with their personal online activity.”

then you know it’s bad.

[Sprite518]

Business wise yes freedom to say what you want.... NO

[Sprite518]

The control freaks in Washington KNOW they could not silence free speech on Facebook without being called Nazi or Communist... So they just let China buy it to silence us... Nice huh???

[G Larry]

Let’s hear it from all those wanting award me a tin foil hat for the security concerns I posted here regarding facebook!

[Dallas59]

[freedumb2003]

>> Hundreds of millions of idiots voluntarily creating a huge database of personal information for the government to access. I’m sure our own corrupt Homeland Security <<

It amazes me how much personal information my family posts on fb. I have a super-silent fb account — My “wall” is clear: I delete all messages after seeing them and I provide no information. I know that is probably too much but it is the only way I can stay in touch with my large family.

But the stuff these people post: I could put together a ID-fake profile in 10 minutes! I try to tell them but they call me, essentially, a Luddite. I have been working in I/T since punch card days and was one of the orginal designers of Gopher sites, and they call me a Luddite? More like “aware.”

[Daffynition]

[Captain Peter Blood]

If the Chinese and Middle East were to get control of Facebook I certainly would close my account ASAP.
One poster was right on the sheer volume of information that could be gotten from those on Facebook.
The Chinese have already been using cyberwar on this country for them to control Facebook would be too much.
Although I am sure the useful idiots at Facebook would be willing accomplices to their new Chinese masters.

[Daffynition]

LOL...I would like to go on the record, that we no longer have any firearms in our possession, since they were irretrievably lost in that inexplicable, tragic accident when the canoe tipped over.

[Daffynition]

Defections. Surge for MySpace. New social sites. The genius of America is that its open and broad market eventually punishes the arrogant and the naïve by allowing choice.

[dfwgator]

First thing the Chicoms will do is to change the name from “Facebook” to “Redbook.”

[Daffynition]

I see you are listed here. You must have slipped up somewhere.