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Or it could have been a normal employee that ticked the "censor everywhere" box rather than "censor china"
But why would it happen today? The term is likely censored year round in China, why would it suddenly go from China to global?
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Or it could have been a normal employee that ticked the "censor everywhere" box rather than "censor china"
But why would it happen today? The term is likely censored year round in China, why would it suddenly go from China to global?
https://twitter.com/MikaelThalen/status/1400906032176640004 A Microsoft spokesperson tells me that "accidental human error" is to blame for missing images of "tank man" on its Bing search results. "We are actively working to resolve this." The incident comes on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Yikes. Let's try others... Google: Plenty of results DuckDuckGo: No results Wait, I thought DuckDuckGo said they are the "No Censorship" search engine, or something like that?
Looks to me like DDG have fixed this now.
Makes me wonder what other pitfalls there are to using DDG.
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I’ll start with: no I don’t think you or “HN” are in on some conspiracy. My question is: does HN actively attempt to counteract government actors from influencing the site? I think it’s been proven that China among other countries employs folks to try to influence social media sites. Not necessarily by influencing staff, but by creating user accounts who do things like downvote unfavorable comments or flag stories th…
Counteracting abuse of this site is the #1 thing we do behind the scenes to try to prevent the value of HN from eroding. That's actually what I spent the first hour of my morning doing, before I realized that there was $BigDrama happening. (Thank you, bat-signaling emailers.) If you ever see me commenting on how "large HN threads are paged for performance reasons, so click the More link at the bottom, and we'll event…
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Even if one of the most famous photographs ever taken wasn't called "tank man", it'd still be pretty weird for there to zero results. Try misspelling "man" or "tank", you'll get many results. "tanke man" says "including results for 'tank man'".
Or "tank man Tiananmen square" results in results. Still kind of odd, this takes duck duck go with it too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
and though the image searches do show a bunch of other things (all including "tank man" in the name at least), they _do_ also include the iconic photo at least once:
http://www.maryscullyreports.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/...
which I did not see in the bing results...
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Somewhat refreshing to see the normally mild-mannered dang show a flash of annoyance at conspiratorial thinking for once. Thanks for your consistently even-handed and dedicated moderation efforts sir.
I wish it was more than mild annoyance being expressed. There has been a huge uptick in /r/conspiracy style posts and accusations over the last few months (none of them valid, except one but that was purely by accident).
Elsewhere on HackerNews there are discussions about how GDPR regulations affect the internet entirely - not just in the EU. And there are famous examples how California environmental regulations bring up the quality of products US-wide so everyone benefits from safety and consumer protections not just people in california. In both cases, this is because it's easier to just have ONE version of a product if your market…
> At what point do companies that have to censor information for [local] audience decide it's just less of a hassle to have the same censorship apply blanketly world-wide? This has already happened. The U.S. has much more strict standards regarding nudity than the rest of the world in general, but the world has largely adopted U.S. norms, and nudity is now censored worldwide. So much for multi-culturalism.
