Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Searching Baidu's "Library" for “Tiananmen 1989” and “June 1989”

According to Baidu, its “Library” (Wenku 文库) product “is an online document sharing platform, through which any registered users of our Baidu.com website can search, browse or read, by categories, documents in various formats.”

These screenshots show that, while Baidu’s users are sharing tens of thousands of documents knowledge about “Tiananmen 1988,” “Tiananmen 1990,” as well as “1989 May” and “1989 July,” Baidu tells users of its “Library” search engine that it is unable to locate a single document shared by its users about “Tiananmen 1989” or “1989 June.”



Translation: Sun Daluo's Court Judgment for Sharing Books and Articles

The PRC government sentenced Sun Zhiming (孙志明, who wrote under the alias Sun Daluo (孙大骆)) to one year imprisonment for the crime of "di...