[quote][I]"Truth" appears to have vanished from the Chinese internet, after micro-bloggers discovered the word had been blocked on the country's leading social-media website.[/I]
Online messages began circulating earlier this week claiming that the Chinese characters for "the truth" could not be searched for on the Twitter-like micro-blog, Sina Weibo, which boasts nearly 300 million registered users.
Attempts to search Weibo for "the truth" on Thursday turned up the message: "According to relevant laws, regulations and policies, search results for 'the truth' cannot be displayed."
It is not known how long the term has been blocked or why but one internet-user said they had first noticed the truth was missing in late June. Sina Weibo did not respond to requests for information.
Qi Zhenyu, head of social media for iSun Affairs, a Hong Kong-based current affairs magazine, said it was not clear when censors might allow the truth to return.
"It is not unusual but it is quite ironic this time – you can't simply block the truth," said Mr Qi, one of the first to detect truth's absence.
China is notorious for actively blocking sites such as Facebook and Twitter with its Great Firewall. But social media firms are also required to self-censor as a result of government guidelines and pressure.
Terms blocked in the past include those deemed obscene as well as politically sensitive ones such as "Tiananmen Square" or the name of disgraced politician "Bo Xilai", whose wife was implicated in the suspected murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.
"Weibo is the most popular social media site in China and as a result suffers the highest level of censorship," said Mr Qi, whose online magazine is also blocked in mainland China.
"Whenever there is a word that upsets them, they just go ahead and block [but] most of the time you can't really explain why they censor a certain word."[/quote]
[url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9394684/The-truth-deleted-from-internet-in-China.html]Source[/url]
Idiotic censoring. Bah.
Wait what?
They censored the word "truth" so nobody would know... the truth?
What the fuck?
-snip, may as well have a nap sometime-
Why would you delete an old hippy from the internet?
Oh wait you don't mean "The Truth" you mean the word truth.
Okay I see what you mean.
Pretty silly move China what are you doing.
china, that's not how you remove truth you dumbarses
"Truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
type china hid the facts into notepad and see what happens its spooky
fyi searching for porn is blocked in china, thats right fellas, no redtube or youporn here, even through proxies
i can't even google "busty asian beauties" for fucks sake
[QUOTE=aznz888;36761367]fyi searching for porn is blocked in china, thats right fellas, no redtube or youporn here, even through proxies
i can't even google "busty asian beauties" for fucks sake[/QUOTE]
Why are you in China?
[QUOTE=aznz888;36761367]fyi searching for porn is blocked in china, thats right fellas, no redtube or youporn here, even through proxies
i can't even google "busty asian beauties" for fucks sake[/QUOTE]
what about "truthtube"
does that get you the titties you seek
[QUOTE=Last or First;36761619]what about "truthtube"
does that get you the titties you seek[/QUOTE]Greatest thing ive heard in weeks, thanks for giving me a good laugh
[QUOTE=Last or First;36761619]what about "truthtube"
does that get you the titties you seek[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.truthtube.com/[/url]
This is garbage.
[editline]13th July 2012[/editline]
Unless the reference was the joke, whoops.
This is also the country that has banned spreading untrue rumors on the internet.
Sooo... you ban lies... then ban the truth... wow. China has literally banned everything.
China strong.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;36762086]This is also the country that has banned spreading untrue rumors on the internet.
Sooo... you ban lies... then ban the truth... wow. China has literally banned everything.[/QUOTE]
Next ban questions.
don't get the whole point of banning "the truth"
seriously, it makes no sense. what is up with china's security? it's like a country-wide version of NetNanny
[QUOTE=Last or First;36761619]what about "truthtube"
does that get you the titties you seek[/QUOTE]
RATE THIS MAN FUNNY
[QUOTE=SickJits;36763655]RATE THIS MAN FUNNY[/QUOTE]
NO
[QUOTE=aznz888;36761367]fyi searching for porn is blocked in china, thats right fellas, no redtube or youporn here, even through proxies
i can't even google "busty asian beauties" for fucks sake[/QUOTE]
VPN should still work, try downloading Hotspot Shield (somehow the firewall allowed me to DL it via AppStore)
accuracy, actuality, authenticity, axiom, case, certainty, correctness, dope*, exactitude, exactness, fact, facts, factualism, factuality, factualness, genuineness, gospel truth, gospel, honest truth, infallibility, inside track, legitimacy, maxim, naked truth, nitty-gritty, perfection, picture, plain talk, precision, principle, rectitude, rightness, scoop, score, trueness, truism, truthfulness, unvarnished truth, veracity, verisimilitude, verity, whole story
Well, there are plenty of synonyms for the Chinese to use.
[QUOTE=cqbcat;36764329]accuracy, actuality, authenticity, axiom, case, certainty, correctness, dope*, exactitude, exactness, fact, facts, factualism, factuality, factualness, genuineness, gospel truth, gospel, honest truth, infallibility, inside track, legitimacy, maxim, naked truth, nitty-gritty, perfection, picture, plain talk, precision, principle, rectitude, rightness, scoop, score, trueness, truism, truthfulness, unvarnished truth, veracity, verisimilitude, verity, whole story
Well, there are plenty of synonyms for the Chinese to use.[/QUOTE]
because this is how language works
it's not like languages aren't things that can be perfectly translated with 1:1 accuracy or anything
I'm pretty sure truth is self evident. People seem to know when they are being manipulated.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;36764380]surely there are synonyms in their language[/QUOTE]
It depends, in this case these are characters, and these characters might be the only things that represent that idea in the entire language. I am however not a Chinese linguist so i couldn't testify as to the accuracy of this
we're not talking about an alphabet here
[I]Truth[/I]? You can't handle [I]the truth![/I]
You do all know what kind of stuff you come across when you search for 'the truth' on the internet, do you?
[QUOTE=aznz888;36761367]fyi searching for porn is blocked in china, thats right fellas, no redtube or youporn here, even through proxies
i can't even google "busty asian beauties" for fucks sake[/QUOTE]
They might be able to stop porn on the internet, but they cannot stop the porn in my mind!
[QUOTE=dass;36765749]They might be able to stop porn on the internet, but they cannot stop the porn in my mind![/QUOTE]
Soon enough they will!
[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;36764356]because this is how language works
it's not like languages aren't things that can be perfectly translated with 1:1 accuracy or anything[/QUOTE]
Interestingly enough, Google Translate yields nine different sets of characters when asked to translate "Truth", but only 真相 when translating "the truth."
Crazy damn definite articles.