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Doxxing / humanflesh search typically gets filtered by the great firewall because it promotes "activism", occasionally it's also weaponized. That said this isn'
by dirtyid 7y ago
Doxxing / humanflesh search typically gets filtered by the great firewall because it promotes "activism", occasionally it's also weaponized. That said this isn't exactly a novel phenomenon, HK protestors has been doxxing police family for the last few months but of course that doesn't get much coverage here [1]. It's only remarkable in the sense that China (supposedly) isn't cracking down on it, implying state endorsement. I wonder if there's actual change in GFW policy, humanflesh doxxes usually get deleted after a period of time based on specific triggers (reach X critical shares, influence real life activity), is that not happening now or is this just business as usual?
[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3024762/hong-kong-privacy-watchdog-refers-600-cases-doxxing https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/30...
- ozzmotik 7y agoFor anyone else like me who is unfamiliar with the concept of human flesh search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_flesh_search_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_flesh_search_engine Learned something new and interesting today!
- codeisawesome 7y agoJeez what a name for the concept. I guess you’d just call it “human search engine” or “low tech search”... or even “crowdsourced search”...
- uranusjr 7y agoIt’s more of an unfortunate misinterpretation IMO. The translation is quite literal, but does not imply the same concept in Chinese as in English. The 人肉 part originally means human as in “the human calculator” or similar expressions. A “human search engine” (or more colloquially here in Taiwan, a human Google) is someone super good at finding information most can’t, and that expression is then turned into the verb.