Database vendor said to abet Chinese censorsStaff writer, with CNAA company providing access to an online database of academic theses and dissertations has been accused of cooperating with Chinese political censorship and content revisions. For example, it would be unreasonable if automated translation software changed every mention of “New Taiwan dollar” in a paper to “New Chinese Taipei dollar,” he said. The ministry would instruct universities and colleges to evaluate their database vendors, it said. Airiti (華藝) — the vendor in question — said in a statement on Wednesday that when it exports Taiwanese academic content, the content is in its original form. The company can only respect that a database subscriber chooses the content they need, the representative said.

Source: Taipei Times December 17, 2020 15:56 UTC