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Three Arrests In China Over Baidu Post-Deleting Services
twoheadedboy writes "Three employees of Baidu, China's most popular search engine, have been arrested under suspicion of taking bribes. It is alleged that the employees accepted money in exchange for removing negative feedback left on Baidu's forum service. The company had already fired four people for misconduct before three of them were arrested. This so-called 'post-deleting' business is believed to be big in China, even though it is illegal."
You are in danger of repeating yourself there, I say you are in danger of repeating yourself there :)
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They were immediately hired by the Chinese State internet filtering unit.
Facebook is a privacy-invading pile of noise and shitty games which keeps a dossier on you even years after you "deleted" your account.
First post from newly registered user. Nope not suspicious at all
So if Yelp were Chinese they'd be arrested?
Of course not! And certainly not from a username consisting of an 'h' and an arbitrary set of four numbers after it! And ESPECIALLY not when they're talking about things like the real name policy, which have been quite a bit relaxed for months now!
That most obviously doesn't sound like a shill for a company coming in late to the party again!
At least in China someone gets paid for the work. In the west, companies have to do this for free if you send them a DMCA complaint.
PRC's got nothing to hide.
Tiananmen Square is lovely at this time of the year, by the way.
People in China being arrested for bribery? Sounds like they didn't bribe the police enough.
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That's a joke, I say, that's a joke, son. That moderator's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver.
Hoist Number One and Number Six.
You spelled "internet" wrong.
How much do I need to Paypal a slashdot admin to get h1144's facepalmingly bad post deleted?
In There is no equivalent to Christianity's "do unto others as you would have them do unto yourself" in China. So, why the hell care what your employer is paying you to do?
Right, the West is so different. That explains our wonderful state of economy.
The word is "empthy", look it up. It's something universal to all humans.
"Empathy", that is. Note to self: preview is your friend.
Then it is off to the Labour Camps! In Communist China, guilt is presumed :(
In There is no equivalent to Christianity's "do unto others as you would have them do unto yourself" in China. So, why the hell care what your employer is paying you to do?
Right, the West is so different. That explains our wonderful state of economy.
The word is "empthy", look it up. It's something universal to all humans.
Actually, isn't the very definition of psychopath "someone who lacks empathy"?
So the Government can confiscate & delete but not the people, nooooww I get it...
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I see your point. It's universal in the sense that two arms and two legs are universal to all humans, amputees and people born with deformity notwithstanding.
What's this, then?
Let's see...choice between "keep my word to some fuckwit corporate master" or "buy an apartment and be thought of as a worthy man in the minds of my girlfriend's parents."
Not entirely different from the choices we force Americans to make.
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Except when the government is doing it.
look, it's a big pile of white people lies.
Was this given the -1 Painful Truth mod?
Don't get me wrong, I use many Google products; however I'd be kidding myself if I were to characterize Google--or any other company whose primary revenue is advertising--as anything but a privacy-invading troll whose product is the end-user.
To this end, they are no different than Facebook or Microsoft. They collect as much information on you as they possibly can, and sell that to the highest bidder in the name of targeted advertising. Why people think that Google wouldn't ever do this is beyond me.
..well, a repost of my earlier first post.
Someone took it down.
Arbitrary?! That's his birthday damn it. User h1144 was born in November, 1944. That makes him a hairy grandfather with far too much time in his hands.
This is nothing new - it's a show from the Ministry of Information.
As an ex-pat who owns a company out here doing marketing over social media and digital, you have to 1) register anything .cn ( not just GoDaddy your site) you got to _register_ it in person ... stamps go on a lot of paperwork 2) Every social media outlet is required to allow the government to take over at any minute *literally 3) This is a farce, not a story : it's a way to let people know there's some sort of regulation going on by the Ministry of Information who is slowly trying to de-regulate to instill confidence in a growing population.
Europeans and Americans would argue something around free speech. En-masse in China the people just take it as what it is. 3 people taking bribes is like 3 people shaking hands with somebody. The entirety of business in this country is about giving "handshakes" so 3 random people? More like anybody you want to do business with.
Again, it's easy to look from the outside, but it's a complex world out there and it's worth knowing what you're talking about before commenting. It's easy to comment, it's hard to know.
And Google doesn't? Oh, how internet you are...