SPRIE's "China 2.0" conference highlights challenges facing online social media in China

The Wall Street Journal's Loretta Chao, one of the participants at SPRIE's "China 2.0" conference in Beijing, covered the event's panel on social media for the Journal's "China Realtime Report." Panelists at the conference covered the problem of censorship and its effect on social networking, the opportunities or lack of for foreign companies wishing to compete in this space, and the possibility of Chinese homegrown innovation in social media.