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The number of Chinese websites is shrinking and posts are being removed and censored, stoking fears about what happens when history is erased.

Chinese people know their country’s internet is different. There is no Google, YouTube, Facebook or Twitter. They use euphemisms online to communicate the things they are not supposed to mention. When their posts and accounts are censored, they accept it with resignation.

They live in a parallel online universe. They know it and even joke about it.

Now they are discovering that, beneath a facade bustling with short videos, livestreaming and e-commerce, their internet — and collective online memory — is disappearing in chunks.

post on WeChat on May 22 that was widely shared reported that nearly all information posted on Chinese news portals, blogs, forums, social media sites between 1995 and 2005 was no longer available.

“The Chinese internet is collapsing at an accelerating pace,” the headline said. Predictably, the post itself was soon censored.

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[–] Bernie_Sandals 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I'm pretty sure this is happening in the US because of those pages no longer being profitable to run.

There's a big difference between that and losing chunks of the internet because of rampant censorship, something we aren't experiencing in the West/US.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Yeah, and there's people trying to save as much as possible. Unfortunately attrition of history is nothing new.

[–] anticolonialist -4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I've got dead links/ bookmarks to pages from the hill, Wall Street journal, the guardian, and several other still functioning websites where information has been selectively censored or removed. And is not specifically an age thing, I have some bookmarks that are older than the dead links that are still functional on those same websites

[–] Bernie_Sandals 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The massive difference is that even if that's true, it'd be on the corporations deciding to change narrative independently, not being forced to by the government.

Outlets like the Guardian are certainly willing to piss off the U.S. government, they were literally one of the publishers of the Snowden files.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it'd be on the corporations deciding to change narrative independently, not being forced to by the government.

That is incredibly naive

[–] Bernie_Sandals 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah? Then give me evidence of a large campaign by the U.S government to force companies to change media narrative in the past 2 decades.

Every time I've seen anything even close, the media companies have screamed bloody murder.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Were those links killed because of archieving or website changes? Cause ive encountered that in the past with random shit, using links on the nexus mod pages for example has a pretty good chance to be a dead link since nexus migrated their site some years ago. I can easily see a scenario where ya may kill certain pages and transfer the story to an archieve instead, especially if the title may be reused or something similar. "3 killed in fatal car crash on the 15" aint exactly a unique headline for example.