Bing Goes Full-On Censorship in English Search Results Within China

Post by bjshepard » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 10:06 AM UTC

JohnTHaller wrote: post #28

yzh wrote: post #24

I cannot believe after all these years China is still banning the whole site instead of using some keyword or content-based method. Not that those methods are right, but at least it would save a lot of programmers and researchers time. How can people make progress on anything related to scientific research without the help of Wikipedia? seven years ago I was a college student in China and I sure remembered how I have…

The answer is HTTPS. Unless China can compromise the whole country's OSes by forcing them to install a security certificate that lets them impersonate Wikipedia, Google, etc, they can't block individual pages on sites that only serve over https * They can only block whole sites. Wikipedia forces https sitewide for just this reason. Selective censorship isn't permitted. Fun fact #1: That's believed to be why the Chine…

Post by song » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 10:48 AM UTC

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #38

xiaoma wrote: post #37

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Baidu's Baike is a truly gigantic wiki. Often whole articles from the Chinese version of Wikipedia show up there, but Baike is actually much larger. I agree that blocking the international internet is harmful to innovation and the economy, but the question of how harmful is largely based on how large the market is. In China's case, Baidu isn't as extensive as Google, Youku doesn't have the Khan Academy or a lot of ot…

Youku rips a lot of content directly from YouTube; 90% of the past popular stuff is there, and of course, piracy. As a laowai, I'm beginning to feel more isolated. If it wasn't for the pollution, it would be the biggest problem in living here.

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 11:37 AM UTC

rahimnathwani wrote: post #44

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #38

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Youku rips a lot of content directly from YouTube; 90% of the past popular stuff is there, and of course, piracy. As a laowai, I'm beginning to feel more isolated. If it wasn't for the pollution, it would be the biggest problem in living here.

Why are you beginning to feel isolated? Because of internet connection censorship? Or some combination of factors?

Post by akerro » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 1:14 PM UTC

Post by sangnoir » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 1:56 PM UTC

forgotpwtomain wrote: post #12

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> But why is it bad that a commercial party wants to respect local laws? How far are you willing to follow this line of argument, should a company help with enforcement Sharia Law, or the North Korean weapons program also? (They conform to local laws!))) Or are you only willing to follow this line of argument when it is deemed sufficiently profitable over the possible cost of PR backlash for a corporation (which is h…