Sunday, October 27, 2013

Bloomberg Interviews Baidu CEO, Baidu Continues to Censor Searches for Bloomberg's Web Site

On October 25, 2013, Emily Chang tweeted:
Just did a wide-ranging interview with Baidu CEO Robin Li who says he watches @BloombergWest in China every day!
This screenshot was taken on October 25, and shows that a search for Bloomberg's web site on Baidu returned no results.

On the afternoon of June 29, 2012, Bloomberg's Businessweek published an article entitled "Xi Jinping Millionaire Relations Reveal Fortunes of Elite."

Within hours of that article's publication China's web sites began censoring Bloomberg. For details see: http://blog.feichangdao.com/2013/01/2012-in-review-10-examples-of-free.html

This screenshot was taken on October 25, 2013, and shows that a search for the title of that article on Baidu still returns no results, just a censorship notice.
All of China's major search engines also continue to censor searches for Bloomberg's web site and the title of that article.

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