Search Giant Baidu Shuts Online Literature Forums to Stamp Out Piracy

Company Will Report Copyright Violations, Delete Illicit Content within 12 Hours

on May 25, 2016

Internet giant Baidu said May 23, it would gradually take down discussion forums on literature from its popular online bulletin board service to remove content suspected of infringing upon intellectual property rights.

China’s biggest search engine operator did not say how many posts would be affected. The firm’s bulletin board service, Tieba, has over 19 million forums with discussions on many fields, including novels. Authors and Internet reading sites have criticized these online communities for circulating pirated content.

“It’s Time for Us To Set a New Political Agenda for Hong Kong”

A Q&A with Student Activist Joshua Wong

By Jonathan Landreth, Susan Jakes & more on May 24, 2016

Last month, midway through a whirlwind tour of United States universities, Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong took a break for a crab cake and mac-and-cheese lunch at a Manhattan brasserie. Wong, 19, came to international prominence during the Umbrella Movement of 2014 as the face and voice of a generation of Hong Kong youngsters dissatisfied with politics in a Chinese city that was once a British colony. By then, Wong was already something of a veteran agitator.