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@@ -2801,6 +2801,9 @@ Some websites have started marking such accounts, which is a great start, but a
 
 * YouTube in 2018: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/2/16964190/youtube-state-funded-broadcasters
 * Facebook in 2020: https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/04/facebook-adds-labels-identifying-state-controlled-media/
+* Twitter in 2020:
+** report https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3096380/twitter-begin-labelling-state-affiliated-media
+** example from https://twitter.com/PDChina <<peoples-daily>> marked as "China state-affiliated media" and links to https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/state-affiliated-china
 
 But then those websites would lose ad revenue, right? :-)
 
@@ -2822,6 +2825,10 @@ Their websites should also be blocked, see: <<chinese-government-media>>. This d
 
 But anything that pisses off the CCP is worth it, like there's much we can learn from their bullshit.
 
+Chinese social media must be banned. This is less serious than regular websites, because you can always repost on Western social media but without getting spied on:
+
+* 2020-08-07 https://www.engadget.com/tiktok-wechat-executive-order-014615752.html "Trump executive order seeks to ban <<tiktok,TikTok>>, WeChat 'transactions' in 45 days"
+
 Whenever China kicks out a western journalist who is in China and reports there, the Western country must do the same and kick out a Chinese journalists for a Chinese media.
 
 Another upside is that this would also hugely bolster <<censorship-circumvention>> technologies, as every Chinese expat would need to buy a VPN.
@@ -2975,6 +2982,41 @@ Reports:
 ** https://twitter.com/JoshuaDummer/status/1280881420047511552/photo/1
 ** https://twitter.com/JoshuaDummer/status/1280882119913291776/photo/1
 
+[[baidu]]
+====== Baidu 百度
+
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu
+
+The "Google of China":
+
+* Search engine: original business and still served at the toplevel domain
+** https://www.baidu.com/
+** Autocomplete suggestion for "Ciro Santilli": "cirosantilli的妻子" (Ciro Santilli's wife and Children)
+** Clearly and obviously censors pages with <<keyword-attack,keywords>>, e.g.:
+*** https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=Ciro%20Santilli%20Stack%20Overflow["Ciro Santilli Stack Overflow"] hits https://stackoverflow.com/users/9160762/ciro-santilli and not https://stackoverflow.com/users/895245/ciro-santilli-郝海东冠状病六四事件法轮功 which has way greater reputation (https://web.archive.org/web/20200807071610/https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=Ciro%20Santilli%20Stack%20Overflow[archive]). For example, a much smaller account with a much more common name hits: https://stackoverflow.com/users/763246/james-hill | https://web.archive.org/web/20200807072446/https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=james%20hill%20stack%20overflow
+*** https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=cirosantilli%20github["cirosantilli github"] does not hit https://github.com/cirosantilli (https://web.archive.org/web/20200807071807/https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=cirosantilli%20github[archive])
+*** but there does appear to be a manual aspect to the block possibly. For example, Ciro's top answer does hit, even though he has keywords in the page: https://www.baidu.com/s?&wd=dependencies%20devDependencies%20peerDependencies to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18875674/whats-the-difference-between-dependencies-devdependencies-and-peerdependencies (https://web.archive.org/web/20200807072151/https://www.baidu.com/s?&wd=dependencies%20devDependencies%20peerDependencies[archive])
+*** Pages censored in China do hit outside of China at least however, e.g.: https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=twitter first hits https://twitter.com (https://web.archive.org/web/20200807071312/https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=twitter[archive])
+* Tieba blogging
+** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Tieba
+** https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/百度贴吧
+** https://tieba.baidu.com
+* Maps
+** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Maps
+** https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/百度地图
+** Google Maps is not allowed to film in China for Streetview, so Baidu has its own
+* Analytics
+** https://tongji.baidu.com/web/help/article?id=174
+** 百度统计代码介绍
+** the <<cac>> uses their analytics as of 2020
+* Baike wiki
+** https://baike.baidu.com/
+** The leading Chinese Wikipedia
+** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Baike
+** https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/百度百科
+** obviously completely censored, e.g.: <<baidu-baike-censorship-of-hao-haidong>>
+** seems to not have edit history. That would be bad for censorship :-)
+
 ===== What should Western media do about China?
 
 When you report something about a person, for fuck's sake include the person's name in the title of the article, at the very least the pinyin.
@@ -6011,6 +6053,8 @@ Ye also nuked:
 
 ====== Baidu Baike censorship of Hao Haidong
 
+This served as good evidence of the obvious fact that <<baidu,Baidu>> Baike is highly censored.
+
 Hao Haidong's page https://baike.baidu.com/item/郝海东/357512[]:
 
 * up 2020-06-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20200606060916/https://baike.baidu.com/item/郝海东/357512
@@ -6191,7 +6235,7 @@ I consider the media in this section biased, and never cite it for fact-checking
 CCTV's international branch in English, China's <<voa>>.
 
 [[peoples-daily]]
-===== People's Daily
+===== People's Daily (人民日报, BIASED MEDIA)
 
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Daily
 * https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/人民日报
@@ -6204,6 +6248,7 @@ The website has per-language and per province subdomains, e.g.:
 * Province subdomains
 ** http://js.people.cn/ Jiangsu
 * http://fj.people.cn/ Fujian
+* https://twitter.com/PDChina
 
 As of 2020, some deleted articles show the home page instead of the article, without redirection. Some examples can be seen at: <<hao-haidong>>.
 
@@ -7207,6 +7252,14 @@ And one of the categories of report on that page is: "网络不良与垃圾信
 
 Notably, there is one separate entry for illegal activity as well (网络违法犯罪举报网站) and another one for <<porn,pornography (中国扫黄打非网)>>, so it is interesting to see that there is one specifically for "misinformation".
 
+The harmful information page redirects to: https://www.12321.cn/ which has further categories.
+
+The "report website" (举报不良网站) category links to https://www.12321.cn/web and then has a "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary[reactonary] and politically sensitive" (ttps://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/反动[反动]及政治敏感) checkbox.
+
+After you submit, it leads you to: https://www.12321.cn/suc in which you can optionally provide further contact details: https://www.12321.cn/reg[]. This appears to be no link with the previous page, so they might just do it via IP. Registration requires both a cell phone and an email.
+
+From the website source code (very simple, hand written, we see that it uses <<baidu,Baidu Analytics>>. The CCP obviously trusts Baidu a lot :-)
+
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 ==== 50 Cent Party 五毛党 (Wumao Dang)