China’s move to insert a national security law into Hong Kong may create problems for U.S. social-media giant Facebook, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. “We don’t offer our consumer serv…
“We don’t offer our consumer services . We’re just never able to come to agreement on what it would take to operate there. So I think we’re gonna have to watch the situation closely,” Zuckerberg said in an interview that aired Thursday on Fox News Channel., because it’s encrypted, and they know what’s going to be secure. So they can they know that they can… message each other safely, without being watched.
The draft law is intended to prevent any threat to Beijing’s authority in the city through secession, subversion, terrorism or foreign interference. It may allow mainland security forces to operate within Hong Kong, and is widely expected to curb personal liberty, such as freedom of assembly and freedom of speech. China’s own media is one of the most controlled of any country in the world and its own social media services are heavily censored.
For several years, Zuckerberg went to considerable personal effort to court Chinese authorities, learning Mandarin Chinese, and even addressing conferences in the language. However, after meeting with an immovable object, he has retreated to a far more critical position.
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