Monday, February 9, 2015

Baidu Begins Censoring Results Connecting Gao Hucheng's Son Gao Jue to JP Morgan

Gao Hucheng (高虎城) is the head of China's Ministry of Commerce (商务部).
His son’s name is Gao Jue (高决).
JP Morgan (摩根大通) is a large banking and financial services company.
William Daley (威廉戴利) is a former JP Morgan executive.

These screenshots show that at some point on February 7th or 8th, 2015, Baidu began censoring search results for "Gao Hucheng Morgan."

This screenshot was taken on February 8, 2015, and shows Baidu was censoring search results for "Gao Hucheng Son."


These screenshots show that on February 9, 2015 Baidu began censoring search results for "Gao Hucheng," and completely blacklisted all search results for "Gao Jue."



These screenshots were taken on February 9, 2015, and show that Baidu was censoring "Minister of Commerce JP Morgan," but not "Minister of Commerce" or "JP Morgan."


These screenshots show that on February 9th or 10th Baidu began censoring "Gao Hucheng William Daley."


This screenshot was taken on February 10, and shows that Baidu had completely blacklisted all search results for "Gao Hucheng" in English.



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