Ban-zoned Facebook reportedly trying to get back in China

We all are well-aware of the banning culture of China. Just to update you, recently China government banned time travel movies and shows also. Well, amongst many banned companies and brands, Facebook is also one name that was banned way back in 2009. But Facebook isn’t the one to give up so easily and according to reports is trying hard to find its way back in.

In this seven-year ban, Facebook has constantly been trying to improve its relationship with China by meeting the authorities, as well as creating software different from its existing blocking devices.

Citing three current and former Facebook employees, a New York Times report says, "The social network has quietly developed software to suppress posts from appearing in people’s news feeds in specific geographic areas."

Facebook won't suppress the feeds directly. Instead, Facebook would offer the software to a third party, a Chinese company, to monitor posts and stories that gain popularity as users share them across the network. The third party partner would have full control to decide whether those posts should show up in users' feeds, according to the Times.

In March this year, Mark Zuckerberg met China's propaganda tsar Liu Yunshan who said that he hoped Facebook could strengthen exchanges and improve mutual understanding with China's internet companies, according to state news agency Xinhua.

Companies like Google and Twitter have been blocked in China since years. Hence, as there is no indication that Facebook has offered the software to the authorities in China, this software may never see the light of day.

However, if Facebook's plan works, the company will definitely celebrate China's 1.4 billion population.