would you elaborate on the political reasons?
Re:Internet Data Is Rotting
by sandworm101 on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:31PM
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If you want to rewrite history it doesnt help to have lots of old copies lying around. Any data not under government control is a threat.
Isn't Baidu under government control anyway?
Yes, but the effort to go through and scrub that much data to ensure only the ideas you want out are getting out would be massive. Seems easier to just shut the door and board up the room than to try and clean it.
If zshbleaker doesn’t respond, I’d guess that over time what’s acceptable and not acceptable changes (e.g. opinions about particular people who may have fallen out of favor, or Taiwan policy toggling between bellicose and conciliatory, etc) so rather than getting in trouble for providing acess to “inappropriate” content you simply ditch it.
Baidu Tieba, which could be considered as Reddit for China, just made all posts before 2017-01-01 inaccessible. And a number of other online forums are doing the same thing due to political reasons.