[Update : The issue seems to be relieved. The following are *real record* of what evil things happened in between 12 Oct - 13 Oct ]
MartinOei blogs that Yahoo HK’s Image search is probably interfered by PRC’s Golden Shield ( the GFW / keyword blocking system ).
I hope it will be relieved very soon, otherwise it would be Yahoo’s own Doomsday.
Let the links speak for themselves:
1. Search 64 in Yahoo HK / Yahoo US Image
2. Search 65 in Yahoo HK / Yahoo US Image
3. Search 64 in Google HK Image
64 means June 4 massacre, or the TianAnMen Incident in 1989. In fact there are lots of non political content contains “64″, the word itself can be as natural and neutral as 65. Up till now, Yahoo HK image search flows me lots of blocked items ( an red [X] , usually coined as the pork bun ) for “64″, but no problem for “65″. This is totally non-sense, meaning nothing other then brutal Political interference.
And that is absolutely not acceptable.
According to Martin, lots of other keywords are censored.
Many of them are crucial for public interest, such as those related to the recent Poisoned Milk scandal. ( Ref )
Can we sue Yahoo HK for “Access to computer with dishonest intent” ?
Furthermore, will Yahoo HK’s auxiliary, such as popular photo sharing site Flickr falls down ? Yet not so far, Please DO BACKUP your Flickr account if any worry !
How about Yahoo Knowledge plus ? Lots of students just learn from that mess of interpretation. Will anyone speak up the truth got recorded and therefore censored by the Chinese agents ?
Tell you, I was once annoyed by the agents for a year, even in HK. That’s a hint about why this blog has been blocked by the GFW since 2004. ( It seems to be relieved just months ago, to my pleasure )
Related links :
0. Long long ago, Flickr HK had already leaned to HK Govn’t ’s indecent policy , refer to Deki’s blog and Oiwan of Inmediahk
1. First discussed at HK Golden
2. Very soon, EVCHK wiki get a page
3. Some more blog post
- Kirk Lim
- Jacky See
- MartinOei and Me as mentioned…
4. Facebook group, as you can expect ( but I am not interested to join … facebook is such an opinion sucker, dudes not for action )
