Comments on: Baidu suffers ‘poisoned milk’ backlash http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17067 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:24:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: batch http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17067/comment-page-1#comment-793335 batch Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:14:56 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17067#comment-793335 In China the Internet has become a new frontier in the fight for human rights. Internet censorship helps the Chinese authorities to hide the true extent of human rights abuses - like their use of the death penalty, torture and detention without trial and the persecution of human rights defenders. The Internet should be a medium for the freedom of expression, not repression. http://uncensor.com.au In China the Internet has become a new frontier in the fight for human rights.

Internet censorship helps the Chinese authorities to hide the true extent of human rights abuses – like their use of the death penalty, torture and detention without trial and the persecution of human rights defenders.

The Internet should be a medium for the freedom of expression, not repression.

http://uncensor.com.au

]]> By: Deep Throat http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17067/comment-page-1#comment-790255 Deep Throat Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:26:22 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17067#comment-790255 A whole litany of accusations against Baidu include: illegal music file hosting, threatening editors of news sites to delete articles unfavourable to Baidu, click fraud, deleting negative news links about Baidu from search results, accepting payments from other companies to delete unfavorable news, click fraud, denial-of-service attacks and then some more! How many of these have been investigated thoroughly by the likes of WSJ? Babies have died, and more cases could have been prevented if a major search engine like Baidu had not blocked news items until Sep 12. It was blogger power that revealed the extent of the damage that was initially censored by Baidu, and it was the force of blogger revelations that probably forced Baidu's hands into realizing the futility of going down with the Sanlu milk cart and promptly opened their news sluice gates again. While the poisoned milk was being spilt, the Financial Times was instead feting the fact that Baidu was one of 5 companies globally that have defied Google in the latter's quest for absolute global domination. There has not been any penetrative investigations by any of the major international publications on Baidu's role in this whole baby-killing affair - they have instead merely been reduced to serving as echo-chambers of Baidu's hollow press release denials... A whole litany of accusations against Baidu include: illegal music file hosting, threatening editors of news sites to delete articles unfavourable to Baidu, click fraud, deleting negative news links about Baidu from search results, accepting payments from other companies to delete unfavorable news, click fraud, denial-of-service attacks and then some more!

How many of these have been investigated thoroughly by the likes of WSJ? Babies have died, and more cases could have been prevented if a major search engine like Baidu had not blocked news items until Sep 12. It was blogger power that revealed the extent of the damage that was initially censored by Baidu, and it was the force of blogger revelations that probably forced Baidu’s hands into realizing the futility of going down with the Sanlu milk cart and promptly opened their news sluice gates again.

While the poisoned milk was being spilt, the Financial Times was instead feting the fact that Baidu was one of 5 companies globally that have defied Google in the latter’s quest for absolute global domination.
There has not been any penetrative investigations by any of the major international publications on Baidu’s role in this whole baby-killing affair – they have instead merely been reduced to serving as echo-chambers of Baidu’s hollow press release denials…

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17067/comment-page-1#comment-790110 Reader's Write Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:59:24 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17067#comment-790110 Seems like the bloggers are asking all the hard questions, while the institutions like WSJ and Washington Post are soft!! Seems like the bloggers are asking all the hard questions, while the institutions like WSJ and Washington Post are soft!!

]]> By: Deep Throat http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17067/comment-page-1#comment-790085 Deep Throat Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:42:12 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17067#comment-790085 If the Wall Street Journal had a better finger on the pulse, and better investigation skills they would not have used a throwaway comment like ““There is no proof that Baidu played a part in concealing the discovery,” says WSJ. It’s patently obvious what’s going on with Baidu to those in the industry….the going rate is reported to be RMB 5 mil for deletion of negative news links by Baidu. The Washington Post report also blindly accepted Baidu’s laughable statement that it was “revealing the whole truth to all,” And if they had done further research, they could also have uncovered the illegal music scam perpetrated by Baidu which was instead reported by The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/13/baidu_investigation/) If the Wall Street Journal had a better finger on the pulse, and better investigation skills they would not have used a throwaway comment like ““There is no proof that Baidu played a part in concealing the discovery,” says WSJ. It’s patently obvious what’s going on with Baidu to those in the industry….the going rate is reported to be RMB 5 mil for deletion of negative news links by Baidu.

The Washington Post report also blindly accepted Baidu’s laughable statement that it was “revealing the whole truth to all,”

And if they had done further research, they could also have uncovered the illegal music scam perpetrated by Baidu which was instead reported by The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/13/baidu_investigation/)

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