I'm guessing it is a "hand tuned" search result tweak because just appending "china" returns a few images: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tank%20man%20china (For those who don't see results, this is my screen grab of the above at 18:12 UTC : https://imgur.com/a/3tzPV49 ) Also, "Tiananmen Square massacre" still returns some image results: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Tiananmen+Square+massac... Therefore,…
There are no results for tank man
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can tell you personally with high confidence that neither the Communist Party of China nor any other Communist Party has influence on how we operate Hacker News. I can't say anything about any other site or company or media or government, because I'm not involved with any of that. But unless the communists are zapping me with behavior-control rays or Angela Lansbury had me brainwashed decades ago, zero such influen…
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't doubt posts are flagged by users as opposed to moderation. But at the same time, it also seems like flagging can be too easily abused, and can lead to accusations of censorship and distrust. (Though I've certainly seen it work well in cases, especially for false/defamatory articles.) But it really does seem like we're at the point where longstanding users need to also be able to vouch for flagged stories, or…
Vouch is already implemented.
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#134Hmmm, DuckDuckGo image search shows some people standing next to tanks but not the tank man photo. I guess it makes sense since DDG uses bing for their search tech but it's pretty disappointing that you can get uncensored searches or privacy but not both.
I just get "Sorry, no results here." on DDG
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
This post is on the front page right now (edit: and now also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27396783 ) - that's the opposite of "disappearing". I'd have to see links to the other ones. Here's one tip for you guys, from years-long, world-weary experience: if you're coming up with sensational explanations in breathless excitement, it's almost certainly untrue. Edit: ok, here's what happened. Users flagged https:/…
We were told the same thing about the lab leak theory from: Social media companies, Mainstream media, and the government. The reason for distrust is valid. We live in an age of rapidly increasing censorship and the CCPs growing reach of control in American discourse. Skepticism is becoming the default for very real reasons.
Are you suggesting that there may be vast, concerted intellectual fraud related to the origins of SARS-CoV-2?
Such that the former director of the CDC has received death threats for suggesting the bullshit mainstream media peddled lies might indeed be false, and there may be a more likely alternate source to the beginning of the pandemic other than pangolins?
Or that there is something slightly fishy about Peter Daszak being put in charge of The Lancet's investigation of the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Like he was previousy a fact checker - ha ha ha - for Facebook, helping to identify and remove "misinformation" about SARS2/Covid. Like he was on the WHO team sent to Wuhan - ha ha ha - to (not) investigate the origins of SARS2.
Or that maybe there's something a little weird about Fauci blatantly lying to Congress, lying to the public, lying everywhere non-stop for the past year, as to whether it was possible SARS2 leaked out of a lab and whether gain of function was funded by the NIH through EcoHealth. And then, suddenly, completely changing his tune. Yeah, weird.
Or maybe it's weird how the WHO very willingly, openly, ridiculously assisted China in covering up the origins of SARS2 in the early days, and has barely made the slightest of efforts to deny any of it (because they got caught on record helping to hide the outbreak from the world). And maybe it's weird how the WHO has suffered close to zero consequences from any of that fraud that helped kill plausibly huge numbers of people.
Or maybe it's weird how so many of the big tech companies simultaneously unified to censor discussion about the lab leak theory. Of course it's not like we now know for a fact, thanks to insider leaks and Congressional discovery, that many of the social media and big tech companies work closely together to censor things they ideologically or politically dislike or otherwise find inconvenient to whatever their mission is these days.
Nah hell, it's obviously all conspiracy theory, misinformation, deserving of aggressive censorship.
edit: the downvotes, fortunately, don't change or hide reality, no matter how many times you hit that little down arrow
I was supporting the lab leak theory here on HN at the beginning of the pandemic. I was right then. I'm right now. Another thing that hasn't changed in that time is the mob trying to downvote the discussion away.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given the outsized effect of flags in comparison to upvotes, I’m of the opinion that Chinese national HN members, and some subset of “no politics evar” crowd is more than enough to flag these to just shy of being dead.
Please keep nationalistic attacks off this forum. You have no idea the sort of pressure that users with minority perspectives because of their national/ethnic backgrounds are under on this majority-Western forum. People have literally been hounded off this site after getting attacked for this. Is that the kind of community you, or any of us, want to be part of? Of course it is not. Therefore, don't include swipes lik…
There is nothing wrong with criticizing the Communist Party of China.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
DDG uses Bing for results I’ve heard? So they’re falling prey to the censorship of their provider.
Right, which is an implementation detail to some extent
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#13850美分派对 also finds no results on Bing, but plenty of results on Google.
So it's not just tank man. The word filter is active for all search terms that are blocked in china.
50美分的军队 I think is another way of writing it: it shows only 3 images on bing, which all look like ads for Coca Cola.
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#139It doesn't really surprise me that bing does this - I'm more disappointed that HN censored the original post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925 ). Feel like that's totally against our values.
users flag posts in almost all circumstances. too many users flagged it. HN isn't policed by its admins except in extremely rare cases.