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Tank man is popular today because somebody noticed duckduckgo/bing were censoring search results This was raised on HN [0] and immediately flagged by "long sta

Tank man is popular today because somebody noticed duckduckgo/bing were censoring search results This was raised on HN [0] and immediately flagged by "long standing boring users of the site" [1] There was then another story about the Tank Man photo, which was marked as "dupe", despite never having been posted before As of now (1919 GMT) the original DDG bug hasn't been fixed [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397406 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397406 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395028 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395028

kelnos 5y ago
Looks like both DDG and Bing are showing results for "tank man" now. I do wonder what the reason for the issue was; while I'm sure many people would like to believe it's some nefarious China-directed global suppression, I would guess the explanation is far more mundane.
- stonogo 5y ago
  The results they're showing are not of the famous picture of Tiananmen Square's "tank man" incident, however. Today is the 32nd anniversary of the violent suppression by the Chinese government of that protest.
- 1123581321 5y ago
  DDG, at the time of this comment, isn't showing results for the man standing in front of the tanks for tank man. Moderate search shows generic military hardware photos. Safe search: off shows no results.
  - LAC-Tech 5y ago
    6th, 7th and 14th result in image search for me.
    - 1123581321 5y ago
      I have him at 7th and 9th with safe search off now.
iso1631 5y ago
This comment was flagged, it's been unflagged. It's quite amusing really. I've spent too long reading the reddit share conspiracy nuts to imagine dozens of bot farms attacking such trivial comments on such inconsequential sites as HN (which was about the only https site I could actually load last time I was in China) to suppress knowledge of Tiannaman Square amongst English speaking geeks (rather than the far more mundane excuse that people don't like meta threads)
- seppin 5y ago
  NH has been the target of Chinese state bots for a while now.
ChrisArchitect 5y ago
yeah fine there's a thing about the search engines and the pic, that's an ongoing/current story. We don't need twenty posts about the tank man pic itself or the stories behind it that are either on here already/widely known/not news at all!
- iso1631 5y ago
  Maybe if the first story hadn't been flagged in minutes, and the second story hadn't been given a "dupe" tag despite it not being a dupe and there being no un-flagged stories about tank man for months, there wouldn't have been such an Streislanding.
archibaldJ 5y ago
Today (June 4th) is also the anniversary of the Tiananmen protest. In China most people who knew about the incident would often refer to it as liùsì (or lo-sik), which is 'Six Four' in Mandarin/Cantonese (六四). Glad to see it gaining traction on HN. Appearantly this year CCP is working hard to erase the past too. - https://www.npr.org/2021/06/03/1002772735/china-forbids-publicly-memorializing-tiananmen-massacre-will-hong-kong-follow https://www.npr.org/2021/06/03/1002772735/china-forbids-publ... - https://news.yahoo.com/arrests-made-hong-kong-during-213954746.html https://news.yahoo.com/arrests-made-hong-kong-during-2139547... - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/28/hong-kong-bans-tiananmen-square-vigil-citing-covid-restrictions https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/28/hong-kong-bans...

kelnos 5y ago

Looks like both DDG and Bing are showing results for "tank man" now. I do wonder what the reason for the issue was; while I'm sure many people would like to believe it's some nefarious China-directed global suppression, I would guess the explanation is far more mundane.

stonogo 5y ago
The results they're showing are not of the famous picture of Tiananmen Square's "tank man" incident, however. Today is the 32nd anniversary of the violent suppression by the Chinese government of that protest.
1123581321 5y ago
DDG, at the time of this comment, isn't showing results for the man standing in front of the tanks for tank man. Moderate search shows generic military hardware photos. Safe search: off shows no results.
- LAC-Tech 5y ago
  6th, 7th and 14th result in image search for me.
  - 1123581321 5y ago
    I have him at 7th and 9th with safe search off now.

iso1631 5y ago

This comment was flagged, it's been unflagged. It's quite amusing really. I've spent too long reading the reddit share conspiracy nuts to imagine dozens of bot farms attacking such trivial comments on such inconsequential sites as HN (which was about the only https site I could actually load last time I was in China) to suppress knowledge of Tiannaman Square amongst English speaking geeks (rather than the far more mundane excuse that people don't like meta threads)

seppin 5y ago
NH has been the target of Chinese state bots for a while now.

ChrisArchitect 5y ago

yeah fine there's a thing about the search engines and the pic, that's an ongoing/current story. We don't need twenty posts about the tank man pic itself or the stories behind it that are either on here already/widely known/not news at all!

iso1631 5y ago
Maybe if the first story hadn't been flagged in minutes, and the second story hadn't been given a "dupe" tag despite it not being a dupe and there being no un-flagged stories about tank man for months, there wouldn't have been such an Streislanding.

archibaldJ 5y ago

Today (June 4th) is also the anniversary of the Tiananmen protest. In China most people who knew about the incident would often refer to it as liùsì (or lo-sik), which is 'Six Four' in Mandarin/Cantonese (六四). Glad to see it gaining traction on HN. Appearantly this year CCP is working hard to erase the past too. - https://www.npr.org/2021/06/03/1002772735/china-forbids-publicly-memorializing-tiananmen-massacre-will-hong-kong-follow https://www.npr.org/2021/06/03/1002772735/china-forbids-publ... - https://news.yahoo.com/arrests-made-hong-kong-during-213954746.html https://news.yahoo.com/arrests-made-hong-kong-during-2139547... - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/28/hong-kong-bans-tiananmen-square-vigil-citing-covid-restrictions https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/28/hong-kong-bans...