{"id":945,"date":"2012-08-06T11:40:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T15:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=945"},"modified":"2012-08-06T11:40:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T15:40:59","slug":"baidu-employees-sacked-then-arrested-after-accepting-bribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/08\/06\/baidu-employees-sacked-then-arrested-after-accepting-bribes\/","title":{"rendered":"Baidu Employees Sacked, Then Arrested, After Accepting Bribes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baidu, China’s biggest search engine and more or less the local equivalent of Google, has sacked four employees<\/a> after they allegedly accepted bribes in return for deleting posts. The deleted content was on its TieBa forum service and seem to be related to publicly-created posts that those paying the bribes disagreed with or were upset by. Baidu noted in a statement it keeps a log of every deletion action by an employee and does not tolerate untoward behaviour. <\/p>\n

After the firing, three of the four staff members were arrested by police on suspicion of accepting bribes. Much attention<\/a> has been focussed on Baidu as a good indicator of the strength of China’s Net economy, and the firm is seemingly considered<\/a> to be in rude health. <\/p>\n

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