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Google Censoring Comments that Refer to State Sponsored Trolls

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The same Google that worked extensively to drum up fear and paranoia about Russian trolls online, is banning comments across their platforms that contain the Chinese characters for Wumao, which is a reference to state sponsored trolls who work for the CCP. Other terms are also being censored, and those who use them are being banned.

YouTube automatically deletes comments that mention some Chinese phrases commonly used to criticize the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Chinese netizens have discovered.

Comments that contain such phrases are deleted within seconds, which suggests it’s the work of YouTube’s algorithms.

One apparently banned phrase is “gongfei” (共匪), which can be translated as “communist bandit.” It seems to date back to the Chinese civil war era.

Another phrase that gets deleted is “wumao” (五毛), which literally means “fifty cents” and is commonly used to describe the army of internet trolls the CCP uses to spread its propaganda online. It’s rumored the trolls used to be paid around 50 cents per post.

The issue was noted on May 13 by Jennifer Zeng, a blogger and creator of YouTube content with a focus on China news and commentary.

She posted a video of a person demonstrating the comment deletion. Others then confirmed the observation. The issue has also been picked up by Taiwan News.

Google has been repeatedly under fire for allegedly cozying up to the CCP.

Since 2018, Google has been cooperating with a leading artificial intelligence (AI) research body at Tsinghua University, a prestigious Chinese academic institution that also conducts AI research for the Chinese military.

Google also faced criticism after information emerged in 2018 that it was secretly developing a censored search app for the Chinese market as part of a project dubbed “Dragonfly.”

According to insider information leaked to the Intercept, the controversial Google app was designed to link users’ search history with their phone numbers, making it easier for the regime to target dissidents.

Lawmakers, human-rights advocates, and even some Google employees spoke out against the project, which, it appears, has since been shelved.

China is one of the worst abusers of human rights, according to watchdogs. In recent decades, the regime has killed hundreds of thousands of prisoners of conscience to sell their organs for transplants, based on extensive research conducted since allegations of the crime first surfaced in 2006.

Last year, an independent tribunal in London, concluded that state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience had taken place for years in China “on a significant scale,” and is still taking place today.

The CCP runs the world’s most sophisticated system of internet censorship, employing tens of thousands of people to manually delete content and make negative or positive posts and comments based on the regime’s instructions.

The regime requires foreign companies that operate in China to censor topics it deems “sensitive,” such as democracy, human rights, and the ongoing persecution in China of Falun Gong practitioners, underground Christians, Uyghurs, rights activists, and others. Companies are also forced to share with the regime any of their data stored in China.

YouTube Automatically Deletes Some Terms Critical of Chinese Regime
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I remember when the head of Yahoo was replaced for sharing user's information with the CCP, so that China could imprison or kill many of them. What does it say for the future of the US, if tech companies are willing to participate in getting people sent to death camps? This should be a much bigger topic than it is. But our political leaders like Pelosi, are too busy calling their rivals 'doggy doo doo shoes', like a ****ing juvenile 8 year old. If Google will participate in genocide in China, what's to keep them from doing so here eventually?
 
truthatallcost said:
The same Google that worked extensively to drum up fear and paranoia about Russian trolls online, is banning comments across their platforms that contain the Chinese characters for Wumao, which is a reference to state sponsored trolls who work for the CCP. Other terms are also being censored, and those who use them are being banned.



I remember when the head of Yahoo was replaced for sharing user's information with the CCP, so that China could imprison or kill many of them. What does it say for the future of the US, if tech companies are willing to participate in getting people sent to death camps? This should be a much bigger topic than it is. But our political leaders like Pelosi, are too busy calling their rivals 'doggy doo doo shoes', like a ****ing juvenile 8 year old. If Google will participate in genocide in China, what's to keep them from doing so here eventually?
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Google is a business. I expect nothing more or less from them than to try to make as much money as they can.
 
Drawdown said:
Google is a business. I expect nothing more or less from them than to try to make as much money as they can.
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Companies like Google have enormous amounts of clout in Washington D.C. They throw money around, in order to get elected officials to act on their behalf. So if Google is working with the CCP to further a dictatorship's interests, while funneling money to Washington D.C. to keep American law makers in check, then our leaders are working for China, with Google as a go-between.
 
truthatallcost said:
Companies like Google have enormous amounts of clout in Washington D.C. They throw money around, in order to get elected officials to act on their behalf. So if Google is working with the CCP to further a dictatorship's interests, while funneling money to Washington D.C. to keep American law makers in check, then our leaders are working for China, with Google as a go-between.
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If Google is throwing money around, it is because thet see that as a good return on investment toward maximizing their profits.
 
truthatallcost said:
The same Google that worked extensively to drum up fear and paranoia about Russian trolls online, is banning comments across their platforms that contain the Chinese characters for Wumao, which is a reference to state sponsored trolls who work for the CCP. Other terms are also being censored, and those who use them are being banned.



I remember when the head of Yahoo was replaced for sharing user's information with the CCP, so that China could imprison or kill many of them. What does it say for the future of the US, if tech companies are willing to participate in getting people sent to death camps? This should be a much bigger topic than it is. But our political leaders like Pelosi, are too busy calling their rivals 'doggy doo doo shoes', like a ****ing juvenile 8 year old. If Google will participate in genocide in China, what's to keep them from doing so here eventually?
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Conservatives are all for private businesses and the free market.

Until they aren't.....
 
beefheart said:
Conservatives are all for private businesses and the free market.

Until they aren't.....
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Progressive oppose private business and free markets - until private business of the super rich harms Americans and the USA and then they fully support it.
 
joko104 said:
Progressive oppose private business and free markets - until private business of the super rich harms Americans and the USA and then they fully support it.
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Google isn't censoring, it is a private business.

Isn't that the mantra that the conservatives used to say?
 
beefheart said:
Conservatives are all for private businesses and the free market.

Until they aren't.....
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The modern DNC loves Google, China, and is more than willing to look the other way at genocide. This ain't yor grandpa's DNC!
 
Drawdown said:
If Google is throwing money around, it is because thet see that as a good return on investment toward maximizing their profits.
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It's bribery. Yes it's legal bribery that we call by another name so as not to hold the elite to the same standards that we hold everyone else, but its essentially bribery.
 
truthatallcost said:
The same Google that worked extensively to drum up fear and paranoia about Russian trolls online, is banning comments across their platforms that contain the Chinese characters for Wumao, which is a reference to state sponsored trolls who work for the CCP. Other terms are also being censored, and those who use them are being banned.



I remember when the head of Yahoo was replaced for sharing user's information with the CCP, so that China could imprison or kill many of them. What does it say for the future of the US, if tech companies are willing to participate in getting people sent to death camps? This should be a much bigger topic than it is. But our political leaders like Pelosi, are too busy calling their rivals 'doggy doo doo shoes', like a ****ing juvenile 8 year old. If Google will participate in genocide in China, what's to keep them from doing so here eventually?
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I wish I could read the article but it's been censored...
 
joko104 said:
Progressive oppose private business and free markets - until private business of the super rich harms Americans and the USA and then they fully support it.
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There's also a current ethnic and religiously based genocide occurring now, and American like firms Yahoo and Google are abetting it. I can think no bigger hypocrisy, if that's really what concerns beefheart, than liberals and progressives being cool with a currently occurring genocide.
 
truthatallcost said:
There's also a current ethnic and religiously based genocide occurring now, and American like firms Yahoo and Google are abetting it. I can think no bigger hypocrisy, if that's really what concerns beefheart, than liberals and progressives being cool with a currently occurring genocide.
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How many have perished in this 'genocide" of white christian conservatives?
 
Moonglow said:
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China's government supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016, while Russia's supported Trump. I personally witnessed the stupid hysteria of liberals who feared angering China during Trump's tariffs. You don't remember that I take it.
 
Moonglow said:
How many have perished in this 'genocide" of white christian conservatives?
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70-80 thousand per year, and they're not white Christian conservatives friend, so feel free to care. Some liberals actually do care about this, like Checkerboard Strangler. He is in the minority, sadly.
 
truthatallcost said:
70-80 thousand per year, and they're not white Christian conservatives friend, so feel free to care. Some liberals actually do care about this, like Checkerboard Strangler. He is in the minority, sadly.
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I see, well excuse me for trying to care for human nature.
 
truthatallcost said:
China's government supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016, while Russia's supported Trump. I personally witnessed the stupid hysteria of liberals who feared angering China during Trump's tariffs. You don't remember that I take it.
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I saw it but there is nothing I can do about it. I am against any US corporations outsourcing of production to China because it diminishes American jobs, just like the arms deal to the Saudis will take away American jobs.Yet, Trump has bamboozled people into believing he is all for American jobs, he's just another politician lying to cover his fat ass to get the payoff. The problem is not only politicians but corporations and capitalism's need for more profits...
 
truthatallcost said:
70-80 thousand per year, and they're not white Christian conservatives friend, so feel free to care. Some liberals actually do care about this, like Checkerboard Strangler. He is in the minority, sadly.
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In progressive values, mass atrocities are allowed and may be correctly called for. Whatever the totalitarian authority decides is best for the country is to be done, even if that means mass extermination of adversaries and/or non-productive members of society.

Xi Jinping is perfect leader of the perfect government to the corporate-fascist secular doctrines of progressivism. Religious people are an inherent adversary to progressivism because their highest loyalty is not to the totalitarian dictator. In progressivism, the sole purpose of life is to serve the collective as the dictator and his managers decide.
 
beefheart said:
Google isn't censoring, it is a private business.

Isn't that the mantra that the conservatives used to say?
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Google and You Tube aren't censoring, and Bill Clinton did not have sexual relations with that woman. :mrgreen:
 
Thoreau72 said:
Google and You Tube aren't censoring, and Bill Clinton did not have sexual relations with that woman. :mrgreen:
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Don''t like it? Don't use it.

Free market at work.
 
beefheart said:
Don''t like it? Don't use it.

Free market at work.
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I don't. It's just that I am amused to see people claim that what those companies do is not censorship. Denial runs deep in the human race.
 
truthatallcost said:
It's bribery. Yes it's legal bribery that we call by another name so as not to hold the elite to the same standards that we hold everyone else, but its essentially bribery.
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If Hilton Head South Carolina says Pizza Hut cannot have its standard red roof on their island then Pizza Hut either has to change their standard roof or not operate on Hilton Head. This is no different. Google has to adapt its business model to Chinese laws if they are going to do business in China. It is that simple.

In the end, people who hate google still mostly use google either through the search engine, youtube, their browser, or whatever. That alone gives them considerable influence.
 
truthatallcost said:
The same Google that worked extensively to drum up fear and paranoia about Russian trolls online, is banning comments across their platforms that contain the Chinese characters for Wumao, which is a reference to state sponsored trolls who work for the CCP. Other terms are also being censored, and those who use them are being banned.



I remember when the head of Yahoo was replaced for sharing user's information with the CCP, so that China could imprison or kill many of them. What does it say for the future of the US, if tech companies are willing to participate in getting people sent to death camps? This should be a much bigger topic than it is. But our political leaders like Pelosi, are too busy calling their rivals 'doggy doo doo shoes', like a ****ing juvenile 8 year old. If Google will participate in genocide in China, what's to keep them from doing so here eventually?
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That's capitalism, baby. They're doing nothing wrong.

At least, that's what capitalists say.
 
truthatallcost said:
Companies like Google have enormous amounts of clout in Washington D.C. They throw money around, in order to get elected officials to act on their behalf. So if Google is working with the CCP to further a dictatorship's interests, while funneling money to Washington D.C. to keep American law makers in check, then our leaders are working for China, with Google as a go-between.
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Google, Facebook, and China have converging interests in defeating Trump. China had America on the run under the last democrat administration, and they were caught flatfooted by Trump’s election. China is used to getting it’s way, and Trump is blocking them.
 
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