Monday, October 6, 2014

Watch: Social Media Results for "Peacefully Occupy Central" Disappear from Baidu

These screenshots show that on September 29, 2014, Baidu began censoring search results for “Peacefully Occupy Central” (和平占中). One consequence of Baidu’s censorship is that social media results are no longer displayed.


These screenshots illustrate the impact of Baidu’s censorship: before the censorship the majority of results for a search for “Peacefully Occupy Central” restricted to the Sina.com.cn domain were from Sina’s blogging platform. After the censorship, there are no blog results.


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...