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Japanese Manga Platform Hits Back at Chinese Pirates with Banned Political Keywords

posted by janrinok on Thursday September 29 2022, @12:23PM   
from the free-tibet dept.

canopic jug writes:

Radio Free Asia is reporting on a copyright hack used by a Japanese art platform, Pixiv, to clamp down on copyright violations in red China. Copyright infringers there had duplicated the whole site's content almost verbatim, translating tags and titles along the way, and then offering the ripped off content to people in red China in place of the original. Pixiv picked up on a way to use red China's heavy handed censorship to their advantage, this time, by peppering their art with words and phrases banned by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Pixiv fought back, however, with some of the site's users adding "sensitive" keywords to their artworks, including "Tiananmen massacre," which alerted the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s massive, government-backed censorship system.

Other sensitive and forbidden keywords included "Free Hong Kong," "Independence for Taiwan," and "June 4, Tiananmen Square," all of which are heavily censored terms behind China's Great Firewall.

Germany-based university lecturer Zhu Rui said the move had deliberately and ingeniously manipulated government censors in China.

"The Japanese artists being pirated on Pixiv were forced to take this action as a last resort to defend their rights," Zhu told RFA. "The pirated website was then shut down by the iron fist of the CCP, which was great to see."

This method has been used for a longer period by YouTubers in free China to prevent their videos being swiped and reposted to other platforms based within red China.

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Original Submission

• "Independence" is not what it used to be... "Independence" is not what it used to be... (Score: 4, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Thursday September 29 2022, @06:58PM (4 children)

  by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Thursday September 29 2022, @06:58PM (#1274213) Journal

  I support Taiwan's independence... on USA, Japan's independence on USA and Germany's independence on USA.

  Also, I support Ulster province of Eire independence on GB. And Basque and Catalunya independence on Spain.

  Don't take me wrong. Please, de-occupy these before modding me down!

  ‘More a colony today than we were 30 years ago’: former senator of Puerto Rico' 28.9.2022

  GT: "Puerto Rico was handed over to the US at the end of the Spanish-American war in 1898 "as a form of war booty." Since then, it has labored under what is a colonial relationship." Is the relationship between Puerto Rico and the US today similar that of a colony and suzerain?

  García: It is a classical colonial relationship. For example, the most important laws that are applied to Puerto Rico are made in the Congress of the United States with no participation, because Puerto Ricans do not vote for congressmen. Puerto Ricans do not vote for the president of the United States, so they lose out on a say regarding the most important, fundamental laws that apply to Puerto Rico from the United States, and Puerto Rico does not have to approve them. At the same time, in the past few years, although we have enjoyed a certain level of local self-government, particularly since the 1940s, that self-government now has been eroded and minimized, because the Puerto Rican government went bankrupt in 2016.

  Hypocrites...

  Now, let's see how independence is valued here on SoylentNews in real. (I like existential proofs the most before all logic paradigms...)

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• Re:"Independence" is not what it used to be... (Score: 3, Touché) by HammeredGlass on Thursday September 29 2022, @08:58PM

  by HammeredGlass (12241) on Thursday September 29 2022, @08:58PM (#1274230)

  If this is about Puerto Rico, you are free to join your Caribbean compatriots/comrades at any time. I don't think your island will fare better amongst others who exhibit the worst qualities you possess.

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• Re:"Independence" is not what it used to be... Re:"Independence" is not what it used to be... (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday September 30 2022, @12:40AM (2 children)

  by khallow (3766) on Friday September 30 2022, @12:40AM (#1274269) Journal

  that self-government now has been eroded and minimized, because the Puerto Rican government went bankrupt in 2016

  In other words, they did this to themselves and suffered the consequences. But maybe it'll be better when we force Puerto Rico to make all the right choices?

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  • Re:"Independence" is not what it used to be... Re:"Independence" is not what it used to be... (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 30 2022, @01:39AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 30 2022, @01:39AM (#1274274)

    Maybe having a colonial master had something to do with going bankrupt? No, it couldn't be all those companies, coincidentally tied to politicians, that rip profits out of the place. It must be that the hard-working lazy brown people made the wrong decisions. Probably when they chose to have brown skin. Feudalistic boot-licker.

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    • Re:"Independence" is not what it used to be... (Score: 3, Touché) by khallow on Friday September 30 2022, @02:08AM

      by khallow (3766) on Friday September 30 2022, @02:08AM (#1274280) Journal

      No, it couldn't be all those companies, coincidentally tied to politicians, that rip profits out of the place.

      Like the AFL-CIO [maritimetrades.org]?

      It must be that the hard-working lazy brown people made the wrong decisions.

      Well, they did.

      Feudalistic boot-licker.

      Colicky race-baiter.

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