To the surprise of others, Song Chen's expression seemed to be more relaxed, he raised his head to look at the city building of Woodside in the distance, let out a long sigh, and said, "Self-censorship!" This is not much additional work for Baidu, just a few more codes, but Yao Hua and the CEO of the portal are probably going to be in trouble, and we have to hire additional people to review the content production! ”

As for self-censorship, Song Chen is aware of the surrounding news behind this "mechanism", such as Sina: Sina's financial report at the time showed that the labor cost of Sina Weibo has always been high, and public opinion at home and abroad has widely speculated that a large proportion of Sina Weibo is used to hire "Weibo secretaries".

"Weibo Junior Secretary" is the official name of Sina's Weibo censorship team, whose job is to remove sensitive information from Sina Weibo and stop the dissemination and proliferation of content that is unfavorable to the Chinese government. If an Internet operator in China refuses to invest in a review team, its website or product may not be able to be run for business.

In addition to Sina, there is also a Weibo product that was founded earlier than Sina Weibo, Fanno, which was forced to shut down because it could not afford the censorship team and could not prevent users on its website from sharing news of the riots in the west. If it weren't for the disappearance of a thin piece of paper in the long river of history, Sina, which regards Weibo as its core business, would have hardly been able to play the "Matthew effect" of the Internet and get a ticket in the subsequent wave of mobile Internet!

"Speaking of this...... Song Chen pondered for a long time before he said slowly, "It's time for Chenxing Network to break up!" ”

Separation!

Jiang Zheng's eyes froze, and he hesitated: "What do you mean......"

"The birth of gF and the emergence of self-censorship mechanisms show that the Chinese government is losing patience with the emerging technology of the Internet and trying to control this growing power!" Song Chen said slowly, "If we take the 90s of the last century as the real beginning of the Internet exhibition, then the government, the market and the public constitute the three forces that promote the Internet. They brought with them three models of governance for the Internet: government-centric, which can be called the 'neo-authoritarian model', or 'cyber authoritarianism', market-oriented, with a strong techno-utopian overtone, some call it 'California ideology', and public-centric, which can be called the 'commons model', and the more extreme expressions are called 'radical libertarianism'. The three modes are strangely mixed together. begetting one another, and fighting one another......"

Song Chen looked at Jiang Zheng's wide-eyed expression, and he smiled slightly: "This is a popular theory in California recently, in my opinion, it couldn't be more accurate!" Obviously, the Chinese government will not hesitate to choose cyber authoritarianism centered on them, and declare to the whole world, especially the United States, which wields the stick of freedom, that 'information sovereignty' is inviolable! ”

"What is cyber authoritarianism? From China's point of view. It is to maintain the status quo while maintaining moderate control, such as now: maintaining moderate market competition, making information control the top priority for all state-owned network facilities, promoting the state-supported Internet industry, and restricting the freedom of personal information through publicity, monitoring, and censorship. ”

"What is California ideology? Beginning in the '60s, there was a different trend of thought in California than that of the East Coast of the United States, 'which was a mixture of control, free-market thinking, and counter-cultural libertarianism'. This force shaped California's free and open Silicon Valley on a macro level, and technologically influenced the semiconductor industry, the PC industry, and the Internet. Curiously, California's ideology has also given rise to a cyber culture that promotes freedom of information, the gist of which is to achieve a technological utopia through technological projects. Tong guò uses technological systems to express the dreams of the designers, and the Internet is seen as a catalyst for liberation and democracy. In this historical interpretation of the Internet, the Internet was born to break the shackles of government. ”

"And the so-called commons model, the radical libertarian advocates are only a small niche, such as hackers hiding behind the network! But in general. California ideology, fund libertarians, these forces are no match for the new authoritarian model and the manipulation of big business! In fact, no matter which model it is, the vast majority of countries in the world recognize the right to freedom in cyberspace, but in this regard, China's openness to the Internet obviously lacks sufficient respect! To make matters worse, it's a multiple-choice question. There is no way to avoid this policy and the origins that come with it! ”

Jiang Yan frowned slightly. As a high-level elite of Chenxing studying in the United States, she can easily hear the problem from Song Chen's conceptual interpretation: Chenxing Group is a multinational operation group, standing in the position of Chenxing Group, if according to Song Chen's speculation on the policy of the Chinese government: as long as it is a multinational operation product from China. Especially QQ, because part of the global information is stored in the zàigoogle number jù center, and the other part is backed up in Baidu's data center in Qiantang City, once the government's censorship mechanism is announced to the world, it will unsurprisingly arouse the vigilance of overseas users, and the loss of most of the current and potential users is almost inevitable! -- For those citizens who have been deeply influenced by "freedom" all their lives, who wants their information to be controlled by the government? Not to mention a foreign government!

Jiang Zheng, Zhu Tiejun, and even Jiang Hongling were aware of the strict nature of the problem, and they all raised their brows fiercely.

Censorship and monitoring of information are two very different concepts:

Information monitoring operates in most countries around the world, with the authorization of citizens and the supervision of the law [note: "Prism" is also within the legal framework], usually only involves the tracking and response of information, and has no authority to intervene in the production of information.

However, the censorship of information represents the abuse of power in information management, and it mostly operates in the form of a system, the main purpose is to suppress the production and dissemination of information, and is considered to be an important means for the government to maintain authoritarian rule. Because of the will of the electorate, it is difficult for a true democratic government to get through censorship, such as the Watergate scandal in the United States, which caused violent turmoil in government organizations, but it is not considered "detrimental to the national security of the United States."

Song Chen was deeply affected by the American blockbuster, and he didn't know that the "Prism Gate Incident" would lead to global concerns about cybersecurity! He has been worried about whether the U.S. government, which went berserk because of the 911 incident, will have the same intentions on its own network information resources as the Chinese government, and even the other party has been so powerful that it has left its hands and feet in its own data center, and he has always been very concerned about the security work of googLe's data center, and the continuous investment in data encryption has begun since the establishment of paypaL!

However, compared with the latter's direct and rude approach, although the former has no difference in purpose, it is more acceptable in nature, at least when the truth is known by the public, he can openly shirk responsibility without taking the blame - you try it in China?

It is also a multinational organization, Baidu and googLe because they were separated early, so there is no need to worry about the pressure from the policy, because the information of the big 6 has been kept in the center of Baidu data, and the government can review it at any time!

"Chenxing Network can't isolate itself from China's big 6, so moving is unacceptable, and it can only be separated!" Song Chen exhaled a breath of turbid air and sighed, "Fortunately, I had already expected this, and I had asked Yao Hua to build distributed nodes in the United States, Japan, and Europe early, and let Ruan Likai be in charge of business other than the United States!" Chenxing Network is now actually in a semi-split state, and it can cut off administrative interference on the Chinese side at any time, as long as it stops leaving the backup of global information on servers in China! ”

Jiang Yan groaned: "I'm afraid this can't dispel the doubts of users around the world, right?" ”

Song Chen rubbed his forehead and said with a slight headache: "As long as I immigrate to the United States, I can somewhat dispel these suspicions, but I am afraid that it is inevitable to be questioned!" I only hope that Microsoft's msn, Time Warner AOL IcQ and other competitors will not use this as a breakthrough to make waves, if so, the smooth sailing of Chenxing Network may be over! ”

As one of the few people who knew Song Chen's decision from the beginning, Zhu Tiejun had never understood why Song Chen wanted to immigrate to the United States, and he still had a lot of complaints in private, but now he finally understood: In that soil, there are excellent ideas that are always invisibly restrained by policies, and it is impossible to win competitors with shackles!

In the mainstream public opinion of the international community, Chinese enterprises are invisibly burdened with the "national reputation" of this bad asset, investment, mergers and acquisitions in the process of always suffer from the local government all kinds of criticism and doubts, assuming that Baidu and googLe are not split, then once the "Chinese government censors Baidu server" spreads, coupled with the promotion of competitors, Baidu's brand image and foreign business is almost a ruined blow!

Jiang Zheng hesitated: "If the separation is not complete, it seems that it will not be able to dispel the concerns of users!" But Chenxing Network is different from Baidu and paypaL, so you can't cut QQ, a social product, in half, right? Even if one of the regions is renamed, the invisible brand loss is too great! ”

Song Chen closed his eyes and was silent for a long time before he said lightly: "Delay for a year or two, there will be better alternatives!" ”

A better alternative? Zhu Tiejun and Jiang Zheng looked at each other, their eyes straightened!

Could it be that he is already thinking of a better product?

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