Chapter 194: The Wind Rises

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In the blink of an eye, the year came to 2004.

Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, is the largest seaport in Northern Ireland, located at high latitudes, with cool summers, seagulls flying over, and warm Gulf Currents in winter.

Harbors facing the Atlantic Ocean are often blue seas and blue skies, with white sails. The Nagan River, the most important river in the city, runs through the ruined castles and green meadows where the grass grows and warblers that seem to tell the story of the past, and the Xiǎo children who release balloons and the couples hugging under the lawn in the municipal park seem to stand still.

County Antrim is part of the city of Belfast, strictly the district of Antrim, but the people of the old county still think that this is still County Antrim, rather than an area that has long been assimilated by modern industrial cities, and they still love the land with deep affection.

In the northeastern part of the county, facing the bay, you will find a seaside xiǎo house spread out in the setting sun, and a large part of the locals still rely on fishing and shrimp for their livelihood. During the day, his wife prepares breakfast and dinner for the day, and his son takes the Huang Sè bus to the middle school in the area. In the evening, the men return to the harbour in the boats of the shrimp fishing company, which row out the water in the harbor, and the sailors take off the blue sè hats of the shrimp fishing companies and wave them at the people waiting on the shore.

The Xiǎo houses in that residential area tend to be lit up mildly at this time, and in the evening they show a large area of bouven clouds gilded with dark gold at the edges, more than a few thousand miles long. Magnificent very.

At night, the Xiǎo houses will be lit up with a faint firelight, and the firelight will reveal the warmth of the glass, as if the whole world is harmonious.

The father who came home from the shrimp fishing company is happy, with the salary he has just received from the manager of the shrimp fishing company in his pocket, and he is holding the new dress he just bought for his NV, his wife died of a serious illness a long time ago, so the children who have grown up in a single-parent family over the years will be somewhat difficult to discipline "Even he doesn't know how to communicate with her, he hopes that this new dress "can make up for some kind of crack caused by the quarrel with her a few days ago." After his wife's death, he began to drink heavily, his temper became very bad, and he worked hard for the fishing company all these years, just hoping to make her live like all the normal children in the county. Sometimes the fishing days are very dark, and there have been winds and reefs, and he feels that these storms are not comparable to his love for Nv, "but as a crew member working in a fishing company, you should never expect him to be able to say this."

Open the room" The light was still on at the end of the room, he clenched the box of clothes in hand, and wondered if she was still angry at the quarrel two days ago, he slowed down his steps, thought of many ways, opened the mén and put the box on her desk, and then left silently. Or happily tell her that he had just received his salary, so he bought her a gift.

His feet made a slight noise on the wooden floor, the light above his head dimmed, and he gently pushed away the room on the other side of the room, unaware that it was not closed. His expression stopped as he saw his NV in front of the computer, naked, and she turned her head in shock, "and she happened to see her father and she screamed."

His eyes were immediately on the computer screen, where there was a newly uploaded photo, which was impressively her Luolu.

His heart stopped, he felt a great tearing sensation, and he tried his best to provide for her, "although sometimes life is poor, he will still use all his strength to give her stable material security, although he is short-tempered", but he has always regarded her as his own princess, and if he wants, "he will defend and protect her with his life."

But all this in front of him made him spinal cord feel an extreme rage, angry at her casualness, angry at her for not being considerate, and even more angry at her stupidly using her full body at the moment in exchange for the intention and blasphemy of the máo head behind the Internet.

He angrily stepped forward to overturn the computer, and then hit her in the face with a backhand, cursing the rudeest words for a sailor, "**" and "bitch",............

NV resisted hard, he felt that she was wrong, he shouldn't have thought about rebellion when a father was angry, especially threatened to run away from home, just for the dirty eyes behind the Internet.

He dragged her by the hair to the living room, and then stabbed her twisted body with the sharp knife on the coffee table. He remembered a time when he was fighting a 200-pound bull shark underwater, and he used a knife to catch the dorsal fin of the bull shark, because the dorsal scales of the bull shark did not have a bony ridge, so the knife was lucky enough to sink in from the back edge and pull into the base of the shark's fin. Then he cleaved the knife and plunged into its sickle-shaped tail fin, and the bullshark twisted and swung like the man under him now, and soon did not move.

He dropped the knife, and his face was covered in blood splattered with a height of one or two meters.

He stepped out of the house, where many of them were still lit in County Antrim, the stars of the night blending with the lights of the harbor. And such a helpless and lonely middle-aged man, who shouted a heart-rending cry in a trembling voice, he kept repeating, "I love you so much, I love you so much......"

Soon countless police lights surrounded the house. The Antrimshire was sensationalized the next day by the incident, followed by a rush from the city's major newspapers and media.

In the eyes of people, the tragedy began when the NV child uploaded an indecent photo of himself to Facebook, which attracted huge popularity on Facebook, which has 200 million active users around the world. Eventually, leading to the occurrence of this moral and ethical tragedy, the media and newspapers criticized it, and Northern Ireland, under the shock, announced a collective boycott of Facebook. ……………… , in the Jordanian West Bank.

Journalists from the Rio reported on the entire 10,000-person protest march, and Jewish immigrants from the occupied territories were outraged that they were asked to sign up on Facebook to sign up for an option to live in Palestine, so a group called "We Are Not Palestinians" was set up on Facebook, gathering 13,000 people in a short period of time.

On the other hand, a group called "All Palestinians on Facebook" was set up with 8,800 members. The confrontation between the two sides in the West Bank against Facebook has turned into a delicate international political issue, and even senior leaders of the two countries have had to come forward to mediate to prevent the situation from escalating.

The last shot in the international news of a young child picking up a rock in front of a crowd and throwing it at a car with a frightened mother and two children in the car was seated. The mother put herself in the driver's seat, covered her two children with her body, and then turned her back and shoulders to meet the stones thrown in from the broken car window, her skin peeling open and her head bleeding.

in Italy.

A Facebook group praising the leaders of the underworld in prison appeared, sparking public opinion. The Italian Senate put forward a bill, and at the same time, in its capacity as the Senate, it proposed a notice to the headquarters of Facebook in the United States, "handing Jiāo to Mark Zuckerberg, suggesting that Facebook remove the content of "justification and incitement" for criminal acts committed by the underworld. The bill was not passed in the Italian Senate," but Mark Zuckerberg removed the content from Facebook that incites and promotes triad behavior.

In the Middle East, Facebook's right to individual freedom is beginning to manifest itself beyond the national significance. In Turkey and Chile, Facebook is ubiquitous in the country's high-level circles, and many people even believe that not using Facebook is equivalent to self-isolation.

The author of a book called "Children of Jihad" describes this phenomenon in the Middle East: "These countries are under the repression of the powers, and people have almost no means of expression, so they feel the real world more online than in real life." ”

And the important question is that in this chaotic world, Jing Mo is the real world.

The Hacker Empire is to Neo, or the Giant Studios are to Chu Mén?.................. Shanghai.

Facebook Chinese Headquarters, 17th Floor of Metro Building.

The Xujiahui business district is spread out in front of transparent floor-to-ceiling glass, and although many places are construction sites, the vigorous construction speed and the city's longevity are intimidating all the time.

The transparent floor-to-ceiling windows reflected Su Can's face, who probably didn't sleep well yesterday, and was slightly tired" but his expression was resolute and tough.

"The whole of Northern Ireland was shaken by the news about my father killing my son, and it was a tragedy. Qiao Shuxin said to Su Can in front of the desktop, the background wall of their office is inlaid with a Sanyo LCD color TV, and now the color TV screen is on the news of the international channel.

In addition to Qiao Shuxin, behind Su Can is the core lineup of the entire Facebook China.

The NV man with glasses who is not good-looking, but the suit under his body does not see a little wrinkle, is Kate, a financial officer from the United States, who has been cooperating with Qiao Shuxin for many years, "She is an honorary professor at Nanjing University, and she has a lot of roots in China" In Facebook's acquisition of World of Warcraft shares last year, she played the greatest role in coordinating with American Facebook, and in the past two years of cooperation, it can be described as a sensational report at Tongji University that attracted thousands of applause, "I feel that I belong here." ”

Next to her is Mu Guotao, a former NTU professor and a student of social relations at the School of Social Development and Public Policy.

Mu Guotao is a pioneer in the field of domestic public policy, and naturally has a high prestige, and when he joined Facebook, it also caused an uproar in the public relations academic community.

At that time, Facebook Chinese had just been established, and even many professors at the same level as Mu Guotao felt that Mu Guotao's choice to work in Facebook Chinese was really condescending, you must know that the Ministry of State Mén was inviting him, and a Jiāo delegation of the State Council visiting Canada had made many promises to hire him as a consultant, and Mu Guotao finally chose to stay at Facebook.

Now Facebook Chinese has 20 million users nationwide, including middle and high school students, college students, master's students, doctoral students, and even a large number of white-collar workers and civil servants in China's major universities. Now all foreign-funded companies in China will use the new generation of instant messaging tool "Round Table Facebook" released by Facebook as a corporate jiāo stream.

And now the most dazzling thing in the office is not these figures who can influence the industry and academic circles when they go out, but the NV child standing on the side of Mén, a black suit and skirt covered by a white shirt, a pair of black sè high heels that kick the ground, the previous ponytail is now neatly hanging down, the black waterfall-like hair hangs down in her front, and the body is slender and tall, so that Mu Guotao, a strong man who almost ranks NVSÈ behind academics, "can feel the impact of this NV child from the bottom of his heart."

This is beyond the age gap. Mu Guotao can even know what kind of vision and admiration those young people from the university of engineering in China from various fields such as electronic information, marketing, administration, and language in Chinese outside this office.

Tang Yu looked at the TV screen, this pair of obsidian-like eyes now has a transformation in temperament, a little less clear and beautiful, "more condensation in temperament." Her eyes reflected the reports on the TV and the crowds of people pulling banners. It's like watching a grand documentary, "but this is not a documentary about the assassination of Reagan and the ouster of Nixon." This is the news that is really happening everywhere at the moment.

"Facebook in the U.S. has 200 million active users, and thanks to an open platform strategy, third parties can write their own programs on the platform, which essentially promotes international expansion. This is indeed profoundly changing people's lives, but we have to face the upcoming problems", Qiao Shuxin frowned and said, "This is not just a father killing his son, people promote politics, and sing praises for the underworld, in Dubai, UAE" to the UAE politicians, protest against Gulf Airlines, and when the Dubai lesbian love group is expanding, Facebook has exceeded the bottom line of these politicians, and the UAE politicians have completely banned Facebook. ”

Qiao Shuxin waited until the documentary on TV was finished, then pressed the remote control to turn off the TV, "Now the political government around the world is conducting research, how to control people with bad intentions, as well as undermining social stability, and opposing the excessive use of the free speech services provided by Facebook, such research and possible measures, these successive measures and swarming public opinion may hit the US Facebook headquarters in California." The core question we have to consider is, what will we do if such a bolàng goes further and poses a substantial threat to us, "even if the catastrophe comes?"

Facebook's six-degree space and open platform Xing are destined for its market in the world, and it is destined that the boy at Phillips Academy will completely change the world like his beloved wargames.

But it has also triggered a counterattack from giants from all over the world, and now those public opinions about ethics and morality, about hidden and personal rights and freedoms, about love, drugs and the underworld, under the social problems that have really been raised, or the deliberate traction of some adversaries, are hitting the headquarters of the Palo Alto glass house on Facebook.

And Facebook Chinese, which has the same kinship as Facebook, may be affected by this monstrous public opinion.

"When financing with Axel last year, no one expected that Facebook would be so quick to raise $60 million from them, and now the Zack team will face the biggest problem, how to successfully finance the funds needed for the next step of development under this kind of international condemnation, the United States Facebook is now burning $500,000 per month in electricity bills, bandwidth costs are $10,000, and 20,000 servers will be purchased this year. It is also necessary to purchase an APP3050 storage system every month to meet the demand for content increase. Of course, Su Can does not understand Qiao Shuxin's many professional terms and some internal rules, but he has been in contact with Facebook Chinese for so long, and he is no stranger to the storage system produced by the app company, which is for the storage system of the data center. There are also three APP3050 memory Facebook Chinese, which is the mainstream configuration of personal computers this year is 80GB, and the server storage capacity of one Zhongxiǎo enterprise is about 600GB. 1024GB is equal to 1TB, and the storage capacity of an APP3050 system is 168TB.

Such a storage device is currently sold internationally for nearly $1.5 million. The current expansion rate of Facebook in the United States is that you have to buy one a month. In the future, it may be extended to one week.

…………………… The year 2004 was the eve of an information-based enterprise entering the era of petabyte-level storage.

Entering the era of PS-level storage, it means that all employees of a company can keep all business-related phone records within a year, and the marketing department can easily call up the amount of video data of the promotional activities a month ago, observe how the customer's male NV ratio changes, and compare and record analysis with the video from a few months ago. Before 2004, such petabyte-level storage generally only appeared in university laboratories, microbiology and genetics laboratories, and even the top five domestic NTU where Su Can was located did not have it, which represented the huge storage and processing strength of a company.

At present, Facebook Chinese is still TB level", and Facebook in the United States is already a PB level company.

The room was so quiet that it was audible as Qiao Shuxin continued to draw out the reality: "In addition to these expenses, Facebook's offices in Palo Alto and California data center lease costs as much as $10 million a year, and the monthly salary cost is $2 million. The growth process of these large amounts of dollars has just begun. After a pause, Qiao Shuxin said, "As far as I know, the current appearance of Zack's financial director Gideon in Dubai may be through the Gulf capital market to seek funds, because of the pressure from home and abroad, no matter from which point of view, Facebook's next step from the US market may be quite difficult, at least in the short term There will be no larger-scale financing, and because the speed of its revenue is lower than the cost, it is extremely difficult for the US market to meet its development needs...... If Facebook suffers from a public opinion winter, even pressure from the U.S. Congress, and financing difficulties, it is very likely that Facebook will face its first major crisis in its history. Su Can knew that his rebirth had changed the course of history, but he didn't expect that under the drive of chaos theory, the world began to develop towards a future that he could not predict at all.

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Su Can knows what Qiao Shuxin is worried about at the moment, the waves set off by the American Facebook outside, "As a Facebook that has a considerable blood relationship with the United States, China has also been affected considerably.

There has been a surge of commentaries in China about the concerns surrounding the phenomenon of the foreign agency jiāo.

Tang Yu told Su Can that there had been a relevant report on the "Xinhua Internal Reference", which was titled "The Unrestrained Panic Brought by the Worldwide Social Jiāo Network, and the Supervision of China's Internet Society"

The article details the development of Facebook and the current development of China, "through the comparison between overseas and domestic, it illustrates the rise and hidden dangers of the current social jiāo network, a highly influential emerging product." Most of the things in Xinhua are the same, and you can use a very smooth mouth to evaluate the process of a thing's history from its rise and development to its demise, no matter how turbulent it is in the middle, turbulent and frightening. And the Chinese for Facebook in this internal reference is only referred to by the domestic social agency jiāo network, "and Su Can is not named."

In fact, it was released on Xinhua Internal Reference, which was a relatively fortunate thing for Su Can, and there were probably several kinds of political coordination at work behind this.

If it is published on the top of the central internal reference "Seeking Truth", Su Can may have rushed to Rongcheng overnight to "go directly to meet Wang Bo, and start preparing to really compete with some kind of force opposite them."

Su Can thought that it was not impossible to do so.

One of the most significant changes in 2004 was the emergence of multiple SNS networks in Shanghai and Beijing.

One of the most striking features of companies in this information space "is that behind them is the support of Sequoia Capital, which has just set up a fund in China, and the partner and chairman of Sequoia Capital China Fund is Zhan Hua, who is supporting these high-tech companies, presumably hoping to replicate the progress and success that Facebook Chinese has achieved in China and try to surpass it."

"They'll never be able to surpass us. This is Qiao Shuxin's evaluation, when he said this, he looked calm, with a cheerful smile, as usual as saying what to eat at noon today. But behind such ordinariness there is a strong confidence and confidence, which comes from a team, a confidence that really wants to change many historical enterprises.

But this does not mean that Zhan Hua and the Gao family behind him will not produce some moths, such as the article published on Xinhua Neisen, Su Can passed through Tang Yan's side, vaguely seems to have passed through layers of channels, Mrs. Mu just let Tang Yan convey a sentence, saying, "People always have enemies and contradictions, which is not surprising." But as long as you do your own thing, it is far more meaningful than spending your strength in endless battles. ”

The key is that the thickness of this sentence is quite flavorful with Tang Miaoman's voice. Su Can thought that he was probably addicted to Tang Yan's natural voice, and he was willing to hear it ring every midnight dream, and hoped that it could flow through every passing year that they were together.

During the transition from 03 to 04, Wang Bo put forward the "10-point outline" in Xichuan Province, and the "three major events" refer to rural poverty alleviation, the revitalization of the province's secondary industry, and the construction of the ecological environment. Among them, Su Can also knows the situation of the Wang family in Beijing, and in recent years, Wang Bo has been thriving in the Wang family's faction, "There have been various voices and speculations about him entering the Politburo."

At the same time, the Wang faction and the Gao family's handling of many matters became more and more irreconcilable. The two factions are not completely opposed", but there is cooperation, but also vigilance and covert rivalry.

There is even a joke that there is a vice minister of a central ministry on the Gao faction who wants to be demoted, and the organization has a preliminary discussion on transferring him to Xichuan Province, but when the news came out, the vice minister's whole heart was cold, and the people around him were also blowing the wind in their ears, saying that I am afraid that there will be no future in this time. The vice minister is said to have left some connections, but this has not changed the decision of the Central Organization Department: "Before leaving, I invited many friends in Beijing, drank some wine, and spit out a lot of truths.

In the end, the matter also reached Wang Bo's ears, and he just smiled, whether it was a formal transfer or the Gao family was testing the waters, what should Wang Bo do, the deputy ministerial-level official came down, and it was also arranged through formal procedures, and not many people were still afraid of him, and basically did things with his tail between his legs. It is estimated that the shadow formed in Beijing will not be changed for two or three years. ……………………

The development of Facebook in the United States between 03 and 04 has been affected by external public opinion, some decision-making mistakes and the enthusiasm that it is proud of its rapid development again and again, and it is also continuing, "But there are always some things that are becoming grassy."

In order to alleviate the pressure on operating costs and constantly seek a profit model in loss-making operations, Facebook still turned to advertising. Facebook's main rival in the United States is a giant company like Google. And Facebook is also influencing the industry in Silicon Valley with its unique charm.

For example, Zach dug up Sandberg, who had worked for Google for four years. She is about forty years old, with elegant manners, "slightly taller, short black hair, and she has been working at Google since 01" is a senior executive in Google's advertising business. If Facebook is to find a solution to the potential depletion of funds, it will have to make money through advertising opportunities, and Sandberg is an expert in this area, developing new advertising plans and business plans.

In the months since Sandberg arrived, Facebook has undergone a fundamental restructuring. The first to leave was Tinata. After Mark Zuckerberg and Su Can as co-presidents of Facebook, he became the vacant CEO as a natural step. It is known as one of Facebook's six troikas. yopace

But when Mr. Zucker announced at the company's roundtable that he had appointed Sandberg as the new chief executive for Facebook's future advertising monetization. Fannata knew that meant the ultimate goal of the meeting was to get him out of the position of CEO. At that time, Fanata also felt that it was time for him to leave Facebook. It didn't take long for him to move to another company, another company in the United States, as CEO of Jiāo.

Matt Kohler. The second of the six troikas, the second year of Facebook's founding, was Zuckerberg's think tank, and after Sandberg seized the power to determine that the advertising business was the main basic business, the conflict with Sandberg's concept also made him leave Facebook, and he joined the benchmark investment company. Becoming a venture capitalist, when he handed over his resignation, he told Zuckerberg that we are still friends, and although he still wanted to say "don't be sad", he was not sure if Mark Zuckerberg, the big boy opposite him, who always looked at people with a pair of blank eyes, would be "sad", this kind of emotion.

Then there is Adam Angelo, a sworn friend of Zac Exeter High School, and even knows Su Can and Tang Yu, who came to Jiāo in the first place, three of the six Facebook Troikas. But he objected to Su Can and Zach sharing the title of "co-president", and he always believed that Su Can, who was far away in China, should not have the same rights and status as Zack, although the reality was that Zack took the initiative. But at a time when Mark Zuckerberg told him, "China is just as important as the United States." He couldn't refute it, and his opinions grew more and more divided. In January 2004, he left Facebook, started a new company on his own, and took Charlie, a top engineer at Facebook, with him.

The resignation of the Facebook troika, but what everyone saw was an indifferent Zach, who was thought to have a mechanical mind beneath his curly máo and freckled face, and that there should not even be such a thing as friendship.

But next up is the fourth carriage, and Chris Hughes is also leaving.

As Facebook surpassed 500 employees, the various departments gradually became professionalized, and the influence of the self-taught Harvard roommates of the financial, operations, and intelligence officers that Mark Zuckerberg had invited to the company began to inevitably wane.

"What's more, it took us a long time to gradually control the direction of the company's development, but when the company grows, Zach, your power is also growing, which makes me, Matt, and Adam all start to feel that they have no influence in their positions, no power. Finally, one day, I realized that I had to go. Chris told Mark Zuckerberg the day before he left.

When you work with someone who likes to be in charge, whether that person is your best friend or a former roommate, it is doomed that differences will gradually become irreconcilable in the collision.

But Dustin and American NV kid Catherine comfort Zach that they are still there and have always been there.

Zach stayed in the room for three full days because of the departure of the company's veterans.

Three days later, visibly emaciated, he asked Dustin to buy a plane ticket to Shanghai.

It didn't take long for the president of Facebook, who has 200 million members in this world, to be on the flight of China Airlines, and met two Chinese NV children on the way, and when he got on the plane, he seemed to confirm him, and finally he could finally be sure, and then quickly turned out the signature book to hand it over, and the flight attendant took the initiative to turn Jiāo instead of the two, and handed the signature book to Zack with a heart, and then attached another notebook, which was her flight diary, she blushed and said, "This is my ......"

After signing, the people who recognized him on the plane did not bother him anymore, and when they met his eyes, they all smiled politely.

Before resting, Zach opened the porthole to look at the sea of clouds outside the plane, the cloud wall was boundless, sometimes forming cliffs, sometimes like a waterfall under the high river, reflecting his blue eyes, as if he did not know the future of this trip to Shanghai.

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