LMAO you're right! I just checked myself. Typical capitalist media doing its thing.
Comment on China claims it may have detected signs of an alien civilization.
felipeforte@lemmygrad.ml 2 years ago
The referred article on "Science and Technology Daily" did not get removed, instead, Bloomberg actually redirects to "http://www.stdaily.com/index/error/error.shtml". It's perhaps intended to make an user think like China deleted it
FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml 2 years ago
Amicchan@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Where is the article then? I tried searching www.stdaily.com but I couldn't find it.
Also, that's scummy of western media.
AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml 2 years ago
It may well not exist. Wouldn't be the first time the West straight up made up what China allegedly "said but then quickly censored." Like, I can't think of an obvious reason to delete an article like this.
Maybe if it's suspected to cause civil unrest, and they want to avoid that? Existence of extraterrestrial life is big news, and possibly disturbing and scary news to many. But in that case, why release the article in the first place? In English no less, would likely have involved a dedicated English language writer or translator, which would be a pretty conscious action on the part of the Chinese speaking press.
Also, wouldn't there be a proper scientific paper of the findings and not just an article if they did intend to publish it? I mean, maybe there is, and it's in Chinese, but mainstream layman's news coverage quoting a different mainstream layman's publication is definitely a red flag for the actual research not exiting.
AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml 2 years ago
Did they seriously not expect someone to open up Inspect Element and look at the headers?
Arsen6331@lemmygrad.ml 2 years ago
You don't even need to do that, most browsers will show you the URL of the link you're hovering over in the bottom left.