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Title    Chinese Regulators Investigate Baidu Over Student Death
Date    Wednesday May 04 2016, @09:53AM
Author    cmn32480
Topic   
from the let-me-baidu-that-doens't-have-the-same-ring dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/05/04/0245247

takyon writes:

Baidu has found itself under attack from China's Internet regulator and other agencies following the death of a student who used the search engine to look up medical advice, and found sketchy advertisements:

The internet search engine, referred to as China's Google, saw its Nasdaq-listed shares fall 7.92%. China's internet regulator has said it will investigate the death of the university student, who used Baidu to search for cancer treatment. Wei Zexi, aged 21, a computer science student at Xidian University, died last month of a rare form of cancer. According to state media, Wei was diagnosed with synovial sarcoma in 2014. He had been undergoing a controversial treatment at a hospital which was advertised on the search engine. Baidu has said on its Weibo account that it had filed a request for the hospital to be investigated.

[...] China's internet regulator - Cyberspace Administration of China - is teaming up with several other government agencies to look into the matter, including the State Administration of Industry and Commerce, and the National Health and Family Planning Commission.

Has "China's Google" grown too close to the West for the comfort of certain Chinese officials?

"I am somewhat surprised that Baidu would be the target of an aggressive government investigation like this because they have always been supported as a home-grown alternative to Google," David Riedel, president of New York-based Riedel Research Group Inc. said by e-mail. He has a hold rating on the stock. "Investors must be wary of this development because if it becomes clear that Baidu has somehow fallen afoul of powerful politicians in Beijing this could be the first of many attacks on the company," Riedel said.


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Links

  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "under attack from China's Internet regulator and other agencies" - http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36189252
  3. "diagnosed with synovial sarcoma" - http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-05/02/c_135328902.htm
  4. "grown too close to the West" - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-02/chinese-watchdogs-probe-baidu-after-college-student-s-death
  5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=13500

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