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Syed's avatar

Unbelievable that China is doing this. The CCP was systematically destroying old relics, culture and language under Mao Zedong. They even invented simplified Chinese characters. It was only Taiwan that preserved the original language, culture and customs. Perhaps the CCP is trying to make amends for all that they destroyed?

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Amy Lauschke's avatar

I know that the CCP tells lies. I don't believe that it preserves the old Chinese culture and language.

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Syed's avatar

It doesn't care about their old culture, it has actively destroyed much of it for last 60 years or so. However, I think Mike was saying that as far as DeepSeek is concerned it is preserving a lot of accurate history because it uses facts not influenced by woke propaganda of the west...just don't ask DeepSeek about Tianneman Square.

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KRG's avatar

Right on!👍

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Carol K's avatar

I a from that pre 1950 group that read those papers and so am quite literate. So I notice that grammar is now horrible

and spelling even worse.

Few can read or write legible cursive.

And most music posted after 1990 isn’t worth copywriting! We’ve become an illiterate nation that now caters to foreign speakers. We have no designated English language preference now?

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Tony Cooke's avatar

Putting old scientific paper behind paywalls is also effectively hiding information. Now retired I am still pursuing scientific matters and finding that many papers even from the early twentieth century are behind paywalls and only accessible by purchase or with institutional access. I assume that journal publishers can hide behind copyright laws which I believe for published work only expire after 70 years. Even so it is often difficult to access papers even published in the 19th century. I know that there is a movement to give free access to scientific work but not every paper is so published. You might wonder why I was interested in 19th century papers but in what I am doing the science was well understood and attempts to extend its use to atomic physics were found to be inappropriate and it has largely been forgotten. The work however is related to a discovery that I have made and its insights may prove useful to me.

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