Simplified Chinese information about Jack Ma, Ren Zhengfei and other historical information has been deleted and disappeared. What happened?

 Recently, there has been a lot of discussion on the Chinese Internet about the sharp decline in simplified Chinese Internet information. Some netizens found that searching for "Jack Ma" on the search engine giant Baidu from 1998 to 2005 showed only one message; analysis pointed out that the reason was traditional text content. The site quickly dwindled and gradually died out.

According to a report from the Central News Agency today, China's simplified Chinese online information has plummeted, and historical information such as Jack Ma and Ren Zhengfei have disappeared. The report quoted the news from Radio Free Asia on the 24th. A recent article discussing China's "Chinese Internet is accelerating the collapse" went viral. The author of the article pointed out that searching for the two words "Jack Ma" on Baidu set the time in 1998. By 2005, the number of messages that could be searched was surprisingly not 10 million or 1 million, but the answer was 1.

In other words, if netizens want to obtain original information about Jack Ma’s experiences, reports, conversations and his development history around 2000, it is almost impossible. And it’s not just Jack Ma. Searches for well-known entrepreneurs such as Ma Huateng, Lei Jun, and Ren Zhengfei also have the same results.

The article points out that almost all simplified Chinese websites that were popular in that era, such as NetEase, Sohu, Campus BBS, Xici Hutong, Kaidi Maoyan, Tianya Forum, Xiaonei.com (Renren), Sina Blog, Baidu Tieba, and a large number of Personal websites, etc., the information has completely disappeared before a certain year.

The only exception is Sina. Some messages from more than ten years ago can still be found, but they are only a handful. More than 99.9999% of the other content has disappeared.

The article believes that the Chinese Internet is rapidly collapsing. In the past two years, the original information available on the Internet has been decreasing at a cliff-like rate every year.

The report quoted Feng Chongyi, a professor at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, as saying that this phenomenon makes people feel horrified and terrifying because of the system, whether it is economic or political considerations. From a political perspective, what was gray in the past has now become black. Nowadays, there are more surveillance, anti-espionage laws, etc., which make website operators overwhelmed and destroy information.

"Moonlight Blog", a WeChat public account that discusses technology, published a further analysis on the 25th. According to the Web Technology Surveys website, from 2013 to 2024, the language usage trend of web content on major websites has dropped from 4.3% to 1.3%. dropped by 70% in 10 years.

According to information from the China Internet Information Center, from December 2018 to December 2023, the number of websites in China dropped from 5.44 million to 3.88 million, a drop of nearly 30% in five years. This data reflects the decrease in the number of web pages. Serious situation.

The article points out that the number of Chinese Internet users has reached 1.092 billion, the Internet penetration rate has reached 76.4%, and the number of Internet users accounts for 19% of the world. However, the number of web pages has dropped by 70% in 10 years, and the number of websites has dropped by 30% in 5 years. This is indeed It shows that Chinese content websites are rapidly decreasing and gradually dying out.