Q: Does information flow or manipulation thereof affect the way people understand the news?ĪS: In China, the majority of news is state media, state news. You can’t message everyone at the same time. So if you’re on iMessage, only your Chinese friends and family in the U.S.
to talk to each other when they have iMessage and Facebook?įS: It’s what they use to talk to all their Chinese friends. There’s a message board service, MITBBS, and it’s popular with alumni organizations of major Chinese and Taiwanese universities.ĪS: Why do people use WeChat in the U.S. There are also websites like and newspaper sites. Instead of Yelp there’s Chihuo, a foodie site. This is sort of a bifurcation that’s self-created.Ī parallel Chinese-language Internet helps immigrants navigate life in America »Įntrepreneurs in the San Gabriel Valley developed ETAcar, which is Chinese-language Uber, or 2redbeans, a dating service. internet, just in the Chinese language part of it. to cover the Chinese community, I’m on the U.S. They’ve been taking Alipay for a long time. There are restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley that take WeChat Pay now. Q: What about members of the Chinese community in the U.S.? Are they using a Chinese version of the internet?įS: Everybody who speaks Chinese in L.A. It’s one more trove of information for government surveillance, in addition to the cameras and facial recognition technology already set up all around. But another way to think about it is that everything you do is saved on your device, linked to your face, location, bank account and ID. Frank Shyong: It’s like you’re immigrating on their internet too, like you’re passing through customs to go on their internet.ĪS: You can think of it as the apps needing to make sure everyone’s using real IDs, because there are so many scams in China.
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