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There are a few commenters in this thread making blatant false equivalence with the Western internet. This post is about how on major search engines in China, y
by Cheer2171 2y ago
There are a few commenters in this thread making blatant false equivalence with the Western internet. This post is about how on major search engines in China, you now set the years to 1998-2005 and search for a non-controversial celebrity and you get zero search results from content actually published in that era.
The loss of the early web due to web hosters not maintaining their own hosting and moving to walled gardens is painful and tragic, but it is not in any way similar (or functionally equivalent) to this blatant censorship.
- anonzzzies 2y agoYep... Only archive.org has it sometimes and then you need to search there because you won't find it via others.
- Cheer2171 2y agoBut for the Western internet, it disappears because the people hosting those websites gave up, so all we have is archive.org. With this case, there appears to be a government-level purge.
- ccgreg 2y agoThe western Internet has a bunch of government archives, in addition to the Internet Archive and Common Crawl. Many of the government archives are not public for copyright reasons.
- wumeow 2y agoYes, this is like if nothing turned up for Bill Gates when you did a search for pre-2006 material.
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