Chinese masses have vowed to ban using Baidu for its ill activities
China has finally come up with its answer for Google where Baidu is now more than a search engine. The China based Internet giant is the owner of several other services that are similar to Spotify, Google Maps, Netflix, Groupon etc. most of the company’s offering are readily being used in the region where its search engine reigned over the Chinese market even before Alphabet Inc. decided to bid farewell to the land due to the censorship issues.
Recently, there were tens of thousands of Chinese locals that have vowed to stop using Baidu completely. It was observed that the Beijing based company has been churning in profits by fooling chronically ill users by providing them biased information through its “post bar” service via the chat rooms.
The service was launched in 2003. Tieba or Baidu Post Bar is basically a big online fraternity that has almost 19 million discussion platforms that cater to various sectors such as lifestyle, entertainment and current affairs. There are several illness related post bars on Tieba that cater to masses as an online support group. Patients are given the opportunity to discuss their experience, talk about their medical history and share their experiences.
The post bar groups by Tieba are governed by administrators who are called bar owners who are responsible to manage the comments and delete the ones that are not appropriate. In most cases, these people are the ones who have founded the particular group, or who have immense knowledge of the subject and are several people assigned for a particular group.
What caused disruption recently was when the Chinese users deduced that at least one of the administrators of these groups which was for people suffering with serious illness was being governed by an individual who had bought the position. He used the platform to market wrong medical facilities and in case e got criticism, he used to delete that.
A bar owner that belonged to a hemophilia group recently stated that on the Zhihu platform, the Chinese Q&A platform that the owners were removed without confrontation. This caused immense hatred from the locals who have vowed to bid farewell to Baidu.
The search engine giant left the region due to the strict Chinese laws but no with the controversy regarding Baidu, the masses want GOOG back in the reach which did not have any evil intention like Baidu. In no way anyone is allowed to fool around with human life like the Chinese giant did.
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