Wikipedia Is Now Banned in China in All Languages (2019)

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35 points·velmu··8 comments

What's more dangerous to free countries is that China is actively manipulating the information you find in Wikipedia and other collections of knowledge.

Just look at how little the massacre of Tiananmen square is mentioned on that article. Compared to other related events which at least have a brief section covering it.

This article is from 2019.

Baidu Baike (the closest thing in China to Wikipedia) is pretty decent with articles on pretty much everything.

Its available worldwide, so go try it out.

How is it edited? Since I'm guessing it isn't community edited right?

Baidu Baike is a community-edited encyclopedia, but all edits undergo review from censors:

> Before publication, all entries on Baidu Baike need to go through a content review system, which will filter out content that the company thinks is inappropriate, including “reactionary content” such as malicious remarks that provoke national, racial and religious disputes and promotion of superstitious activities and cults.

> Some entries that can be easily found on Wikipedia Chinese do not even exist on Baidu Baike, particularly entries on sensitive topics in China.

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3038402/how-baidu...

Would be interesting to see how community relations are handled there. To me that would be one of the most clear interface between a member of the general public and a censor I have heard about. How do people take it when their content is removed? Is there any feedback loop between the censors and the community? Could you in some way argue for why something you added should not be censored?

All hail the CCP. The totalitarianism of China just baffles me.

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