From 10fba6c3bddbe94ec7cfffba636c3087bb6bf1f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ciro Santilli Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 01:00:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] baidu --- README.adoc | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc index 9ed2fef8d..1d4bd702b 100644 --- a/README.adoc +++ b/README.adoc @@ -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 <> 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: <>. 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 <>, 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 <> 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 <>, 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 <> 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.: <> +** 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 <> 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 <>. [[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: <>. @@ -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 <>, 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 <>. The CCP obviously trusts Baidu a lot :-) + [[wumao]] ==== 50 Cent Party 五毛党 (Wumao Dang)