Copies of ClubHouse are created in China

A small point for those who were lazy to follow the ClubHouse saga. ClubHouse is an app that has exploded and that everyone is talking about, probably overdone, but in any case it’s the thing of the moment it’s an app that you can only have if you are invited, where people are chatting live only by sound and in small groups … Elon Musk, Kany West, Jeff Bezos decides every 2 or 3 days to do some sort of Ted conferences on what he thinks of life, of the future, drones and mushroom wedges. I told you how a few weeks ago ClubHouse had a hit in China, causing thousands of uncensored discussions in Mandarin on Tibet, the fate of the Uyghurs, reconciliation with Taiwan, so many taboo subjects about which China is not. not really agree to see his fellow citizens debate.

Anyway, China banned the application after a week of crazy freedom and this is what a Bloomberg contributor reports live from Hong Kong: all the big boxes of Chinese internets as well as the young shoots have created lookalikes of ClubHouse for China, some have not even pretended to look for a name a little further since there is Clubhorse, Clubchat and Clubtalk. All of them work exactly like ClubHouse: the same buttons, in the same places. In his note to its users, one of the ClubHouse look-alikes candidly admits that his app is directly inspired by ClubHouse but that it serves the interests of China and not that of the United States.

This still gives ground to grind for the new portmanteau of the moment: the “splinternet”, a mixture of “split” as to separate and the internet. The fact that the utopia of a globalized and universal internet is receding more and more. If this word is on everyone’s lips, it is because the scenario is becoming clearer …

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