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weibo-uncensored.github.io

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Looked around for a few minutes and can’t seem to find anything that’s censor-worthy. Actually quite some pro-government stuff are included. I guess the vast majority of this archive is just posts from random spammy accounts that got shadow banned, not really surprising given the vast number of bots posting in popular hashtags.

Concrete example: all I see under the hashtag “facing an epidemic, the police don’t retreat” are copy-pasted official press releases and stuff https://weibo-uncensored.github.io/#/weibo-viewer/#疫情当前警察不退#...

There is a checkbox at the bottom to show only censored tags, the default view shows you what's currently popular, the title is very misleading. If you do turn on the censored view, large part of the top 10 censored tags are about Chinese people protesting a proposed law to allow permanent residences to foreigners (like a green card). There is another tag in top 10 claiming coronavirus is not originated from Wuhan. It's actually very different from what you read from the popular media here, you would think the government would be pushing this narrative. Of course, anything against the government would be censored as well.

You wanna help us seed the bot with search terms? We're talented engineers but we don't speak Mandarin :) Ping me on Twitter @2020WriteIn

Nice to see another Arweave project here. Spent quite a bit of time working with this tech. A bit of a shameless plug, but I used it to create a mirror for the Gutenberg book collection here: https://marcojrfurtado.github.io/bookweave/latest.html

Hmmm, yes. This would probably be more interesting to me if I could read Chinese haha

It will have Twitter content (all languages) within a week or so... Twitter is developing a censorship problem, especially when it comes to the #coronavirus. By archiving content immediately after it gets posted, it permanently protects it, even if Twitter takes it down an hour later...

I'm not the developer, but I came across this app and wanted to share.

You shouldn't use Show HN in the title of it's not something you've made. But a cool find!

I made it... it's okay :) Great feedback, thanks all. We will be making censored hashtags the default view, and we are also expanding to North American social media, Twitter and the like.

This one seems a bit better in my opinion

https://freeweibo.com/

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