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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."
With Google+ removing user accounts without reason, having a very strict real name policy and just being too pushy in general, this will probably be added to their list of "features". Yet they still wonder why Facebook/Microsoft continues to be the best social network on planet.without reason, having a very strict real name policy and just being too pushy in general, this will probably be added to their list of "features". Yet they still wonder why Facebook/Microsoft continues to be the best social network on planet.
They were immediately hired by the Chinese State internet filtering unit.
So if Yelp were Chinese they'd be arrested?
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.
In Chinese culture, there is you (and by extension, your family, your classmates [you have the same school class from kindergarten until graduation], and to a lesser extent your friends), and then there is The Other. You see, when Confucius defined the five major relationships, he forgot to include people you don't know. 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? Even if you get fired, you've still made enough money from bribes to fund your whole family for a generation. What, like Baidu's measly salary demands some sort of loyalty or something? Chinese employees feel about as much loyalty to their employers as welfare recipients feel loyalty to the US government. Sure, you get a tiny amount of cash but you KNOW you're worth much more than that. So, why not play the system for all it's worth? I've been there, done that, got the merit badge.
This problem is especially prevalent with men in China. Women are much less likely to cheat you. Men have to buy an apartment before they can get married, and what, your company's ethical statement that he signed is going to stop him from taking every step he can to achieve that goal? Nah, better to stay single all his life and never marry. 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." Hmmm...if you were a Chinese man making $500/month working for Baidu, which one would you choose?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
People in China being arrested for bribery? Sounds like they didn't bribe the police enough.
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Then it is off to the Labour Camps! In Communist China, guilt is presumed :(
So the Government can confiscate & delete but not the people, nooooww I get it...
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Except when the government is doing it.
..well, a repost of my earlier first post.
Someone took it down.
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.