The Wikipedia article about tank man is the very first result on DDG, and that article has the iconic photo. If they were trying to censor this, wouldn’t they hide those search results? I don’t get the fuss.
Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo
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#52This shouldn't have been flagged. My understanding is that posts which comment on current events from a tech perspective are 100% within the bounds of acceptable behavior here.
They totally are, threads discussing such things make it to the top of the front page _all_ the time. It's very suspect that this thread is flagged.
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#53Qwant.com also does not show any tank man images.
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#54Why is this flagged, and why did it disappear from the front page?
I've also noticed that people questioning why this has been flagged are being downvoted. Pretty suspicious given today is the anniversary of the massacre.
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#55Added this to my favourites just so I remember it did exist
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#56I confirm the symptoms happened for me as well. I used the !s bang to have startpage search it and startpage returned the image in the carousel and image results. I'm not certain I can continue to use duck duck go if it is going to give me results subjected to CCP censorship. I switched to it from Startpage as it had a less shady reputation than the latter, but Startpage hasn't messed with my actual searches like DDG…
Doesn't DDG use Bing on the backend (at least to some extent? Forgive my ignorance here). My hunch is that it has more to do with that, as opposed to it being a conscious decision by people at DDG.
‘Tank man China’ returns the image on DDG as does bing (Although not the first result). I think you are correct that this could be on Microsoft.
DDG should seriously consider the provider if there is going to be political censorship from their sources.
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#57This shouldn't have been flagged. My understanding is that posts which comment on current events from a tech perspective are 100% within the bounds of acceptable behavior here.
Very suspicious. I suspect employees are flagging this post, but my suspicions aren’t really founded. Is there a way to unflag?
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#58I can confirm this, using DDG in USA. What the hell?
This thread is now flagged. What the hell?
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#59"tank man china" gets me the expected results on DDG
Interesting, the first 4 results are pictures of tanks, which ddg is currently (for me) showing for an image search for "tank man"
The 5th result is a picture of Chinese police on segways in modernish day Tianamen square
"China still gets annoyed with images showing the famous ...markets.businessinsider.com"
but that doesn't show up on "tank man" alone.
The actual famous image is result 10 and 11 (slight difference, 10 has 4 tanks, 11 taken from a different angle and presumably a little earlier has 3)
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#60I have no idea how to get Dang's attention, but can we talk about why this thread is flagged? How is this not blatant censorship? Tons of people are NOT seeing this thread, it was on the front page before it got flagged, obviously the intention of whoever flagged it.