Mark Zuckerberg’s Beijing Run Causes Controversy

In The Young Turks on YouTube by Hlarson0 Comments

 

People are upset that Mark Zuckerberg took a photo running through Tiananmen Square, in Beijing, with a smile on his face. Critics are angry that it seems disrespectful to the students who died there protesting the Chinese government, in 1989. Cenk Uygur, Hannah Cranston (ThinkTank), and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show), hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

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“A photo of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg jogging Friday morning in downtown Beijing’s notorious smog has prompted a torrent of amusing comments and some mockery on Chinese social media.

Zuckerberg is a favorite personality among the Chinese public, despite Facebook being banned in the country alongside other overseas social media platforms. He’s also become somewhat notorious for persistent yet so far futile efforts to woo leaders enforcing China’s strict online censorship.

The young tech tycoon is in Beijing to attend an economic forum over the weekend, when some of the world’s business and finances leaders will rub shoulders with senior Chinese politicians.”

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