Mencius Moldbugman

FB has been banned in China since 09 and the Borg has tried desperately to convince the CCP to unblock his site. Now, there’s nothing wrong in trying to expand one's biz, especially when one's site is known to a large percentage of the world's net users as "404 Not Found", but...

Also, what the hell is wrong with Suckerberg's Chinese? Listen to him. It sounds like instead of hiring a Mandarin tutor he just saved money by inviting Stephen Hawking round and sticking a Berlitz tape in his voice box.

2. His speech at Tsinghua University:
After proving to the world that he can speak Mandarin to the same standard as a bad Skype connection, Mark was at it again in 2015 when he decided to give a speech to the students of Tsinghua University.

To those readers who are unfamiliar with China's establishments of higher learning: Tsinghua is generally regarded as China's least worst university.

Mark's speech was entitled "Change the World", which is ironic really because Mark doesn't even change his shirt most of the time.

Suckerberg did his very best impression of the well known "dancing white monkey" routine which will be familiar to any readers who have experienced the horror of teaching English in a Chinese school.

Despite his vast amounts of wealth, Suckerberg managed to get himself in the same situation as penniless TEFL teachers trapped in dead-end jobs in tier-88 Nongzhou hellholes: shoved onto a stage and forced to act like an idiot in order to amuse bored Chinese teenagers.

Mr Lu Wei is China’s “Internet Czar”. For those of you who don’t know what that means, Wikipedia tells me he is the senior executive official in charge of cybersecurity and internet policy in China.

This man is directly responsible for the most censorious net policy on the planet. His actions in blocking access to foreign content have contributed to China becoming the world’s biggest intranet.

Internet access in China is so bad that most people still have to resort to using CD-ROMs to get any kind of information, which is why Lu Wei seems to have one glued to his jacket

Yet despite blocking FB and making absurd statements like “There is no internet censorship in China”, Lu Wei still gets Zuck grovelling at his feet. Lu Wei and Mark have met on many occasions, and each time Suckerberg has gone down and kowtowed like the self-loathing worm he is.

That book is Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China. And Mark just happened to leave it on his desk when Lu Wei came to visit and some photographers were handily nearby. I couldn’t make this up.

Seriously. How low can Mark Zuckerberg go? Who did he think he was kidding by “accidentally” leaving a copy of Xi Jinping’s book on his desk in a sycophantic attempt to curry favour with the man himself? I ask again: How low can Mark go?

At least Mark hasn’t done anything really reprehensible yet – like using his own family…

Mark has done some naive things in the last few years during his failed attempts to ingratiate his webshite with the ruling class of China, but few have displayed such a shocking level of ignorance as this one. It’s laughable that his own PR team even let him get away with this.

There are so many things wrong with this. He makes a mockery of those miserable unfortunates who have no choice but to live everyday in smog clouds of life-shortening pollution with no way out. By jogging through a smog-covered Tiananmen Square, Mark sneers at all those people.

Mark doesn’t care about them. He just wants to show the world that he doesn’t believe those scary scientific PM readings that demonstrate the environmental degradation of Beijing’s air quality.