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Can you read Chinese? Every news site in China reported his loss. Try harder.

I'll give you one of the biggest media sites. http://www.163.com/ It's on headline. "人机大战首局柯洁苦战落败 AlphaGo胜1/4子暂1-0"

Oops, looks like I shouldn't rely on reddit for my news.

don't believe anything you hear about China, especially if it falls into the "Chinese Government is an evil overlord" bucket, or you'll end up looking like an idiot.

They were ordered to censor the video livestream (only allowing text) just ~1d before the event though.[0] Rumor has that the censorship order explicitly called for avoiding mentioning Google in the text streams. A YouTube mirror video livestream on Bilibili has been taken down for unknown reasons.

[0] http://archive.is/tTgsx (original page already gone)

It might not be the gov't intending to act evil in this case -- it can be some random "old red army" hearing about Google's involvement in this thing and protesting. But no matter what the underlying reason is, they are defly trying to hide something they are not supposed to in order to make stuff look good. (They ain't no White Lotus.[1]) You don't need an evil overlord to do this; a narcissist will suffice.

[1] https://baike.baidu.com/item/白莲花/17505528

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