第59本英文書筆記：Little Rice，Smartphones，XiaoMi and the Chinese Dream

Little Rice,Smartphones,XiaoMi and the Chinese Dream

Little Rice

一開始我以為這是一本講述小米這個公司的書，但是最後卻發現，這是一本政治類的書。

以小米為代表的一些互聯網公司，都有一個共同點，他們給了人們更多的自由去獲取信息，傳播信息。

但是，作為一個國家，它需要做的就是對民眾信息的管制。

互聯網的開放與自由是與國家的管制相矛盾的。

所以說在中國做互聯網企業是一件很不容易的時，很多事情都是模糊的，你不知道它的界限在哪裡，你不知道你該做什麼不該做什麼，你很容易就會碰到壁壘，就像馬雲說的「打敗你的有時並不是技術，而是一張紙」。

為什麼中國對待VPN的態度模稜兩可？

It』s harder to understand their actual attitude toward VPN providers;

since all VPNs route traffic to well-known destinations outside the country,

China could cut off VPN traffic at a moment』s notice.

They don』t, because despite being forbidden, China needs VPNs, or, put more specifically, the government needs some classes of employees to have access to theuncensored internet.

For forty years now, the profitable exchange of ideas and deals with the rest of the world has been essential to the Chinese

economy, and the government can』t afford to cut off that air hose.

However,it also can』t afford to let everyone have access to it either.

They treatopenaccessto the internet like oxygen, necessary in small amounts, but fatal ifeither too prevalent or absent.

VPNs are ubiquitous in rich, educated China, and will never go away as long as the firewall exists.

Business people use them to get access to services like Gmail and Facebook; kids use them to get access to games and porn.

完全的封鎖就成了閉關鎖國，完全的開放就會失控。中國希望人們有機會用它，又不希望所有人都用它。氧氣太少人們會窒息，但是氧氣太多也不是什麼好事。

為什麼Facebook在中國成了人人網。

This ease of adoption is one of the principal advantages U.S. internet companies have as they expand.

The Facebook of India is Facebook.

TheFacebook of Australia is also Facebook.

The Facebook of China, however, is Renren, launched in 2005. (The Google of China is Baidu, and the Twitter ofChina is Sina Weibo.)

易適應性一直是美國互聯網企業的有個優勢，所以在印度Facebook是Facebook，在澳大利亞Facebook是Facebook，它很容易適應這些國家。但是在中國Facebook就是人人網，谷歌就是百度，推特就成了微博。

Their original competitiveedge was language—at a time when U.S. internet firms were not asaggressive about international expansion, and when translating sites into multiple languages (「localization」) wasmore expensive and time consuming,a native Chinese-language site had a cultural advantage.

為什麼Twitter在中國無法存在？

After observing the use of social media during the Iranian uprising of June 2009, and during riots in ürümqi, in their own Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region the following month, they began blocking such sites from the West, especially Facebook and Twitter.

They also decided that any user-generated content—words and imagesand, increasingly, video—should be hosted in the country, by Chinese firms,to minimize outside influence and maximize Beijing』s oversight.

這本書雖然黑了我們很多，但是同樣也讓我感到在一個這樣的時代，治國真是一個不容易的事。

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