Googling Behind China's Great Firewall

xcham writes "The OpenNet Initiative, a joint project of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School, and the Advanced Network Research Group at Cambridge, have released a bulletin regarding the type of filtering applied to Google by the Chinese government. Most notably, certain keywords are filtered, as well as Google's 'cache' function. More information on how the keyword filtering is implemented is available in a previous bulletin."

Comments

I'm behind the

[Anonymous Coward]

And I not noticed any filtered . Life in China is and great, and we talk not blocked. I slashdot!

Re:I'm behind the

[AKAImBatman]

Well that explains the speech of new Chinese immigrants! They're still suffering from post-filtering syndrome!

"I no you! Understand?" ;-P

Re:I'm behind the

[winkydink]

Pidgin English is too similar to filtered English.

Re:I'm behind the

[chris_mahan]

I meme coming.

do think cute?

Re:I'm behind the

[Anonymous Coward]

Chinese people, I can't understand you, with your Ching Chang Chong!

Re:I'm behind the

[AKAImBatman]

'Tis true. Every time I try to speak Mandarin for "Thank you", they just look at me without the slightest clue what I'm saying. That's despite the fact that it sounds exactly the same to me when they say it. :-(

They'll never even see this?!

[garcia]

They will never have the freedom to see a bunch of fucking shitty sex that will help them be free to have incest while reading Playboy in the Bermuda Triangle!

Triangle Man beats Firewall man!

Re:They'll never even see this?!

[Anonymous Coward]

Aparently the mods use a similar filter and mod down posts containing obscenities regardles of their pertinence to the discussion.

Or perhaps some people are sick of garcia's continual karmawhoring.

Re:They'll never even see this?!

[CristalShandaLear]

This site has nothing to offer but a bunch of think-they-are-smart geeks whining about Microsoft and whoring themselves for Apple. I don't know about the "whoring themselves for Apple" part, but the Microsoft hatred is very strong. One day, back when I was still using windows and word, word crashed one time too many because I moved a text box from point A to point B. I cried out to the tech gods, "There must be an easier way" and of course I turned to google to find another way. (All hail Linux). This story is too long at this point, and the post doesn't really matter anyway, but I'll speed things along here. In a moment of extreme frustration I typed into the google search bar "Microsft SUX". The very first search result was a post here at slashdot. I joined up and have been here at least once a day ever since. (Penguins are sexy wise beasts, Amen).

And the /. effect...

[Anonymous Coward]

...will essentailly "censor" the report too. Whee!

Did you know?

[Anonymous Coward]

China's great firewall is the only router visible from space.

Re:Did you know?

[darth_MALL]

Apparently some of the original designers who died while working on it are embedded IN the hardware!

Incest banned, Pedophilia OK?

[winkydink]

I guess the Chinese govt has problems with big words.

Let's block Slashdot from Chinese access!

[Anonymous Coward]

The lameness filter won't take much Chinese, but here's the English part:

bitch shit falun sex tianwang cdjp av bignews boxun chinaliberal chinamz chinesenewsnet cnd creaders dafa dajiyuan dfdz dpp falu falun falundafa flg freechina freedom freenet fuck GCD gcd hongzhi hrichina huanet hypermart incest jiangdongriji lihongzhi making minghui minghuinews nacb naive nmis paper peacehall playboy renminbao renmingbao rfa safeweb sex simple svdc taip tibetalk triangle triangleboy UltraSurf unixbox ustibet voa voachinese wangce wstaiji xinsheng yuming zhengjian zhengjianwang zhenshanren zhuanfalun bitch fuck shit

A sample list

[Anonymous Coward]

- Cisco IOS
- DVD license
- Human Rights
- Tibet
- Taiwan
- "fall of communism"
- "Cuba" and "Fidel Castro"
- "funky cold medina"
- "Fragglerock"

Brutal!

[eigerface]

I work behind my company's firewall.

I live off of Google's cache. ;-)

Re:s.e.x is filtered out...

[winkydink]

Suuuuure... The country has, what, 1.6 bln people and claims that table tennis is their biggest indoor sport?

workaround

[superstick58]

The bulletin offers some solutions as a way around the filters. All the Chinese have to do is search on google for "google filter circumvent".

No wait.. nevermind.

Re:Freedom

[Anonymous Coward]

So how will I search for Freedom Fry recipes now?

Forbidden Chinese sentence

[MyShinyMetalAss]

"Bignews: This hypermart bitch is making a naive paper triangle on my simple boxun."

Man-searchian Candidate

[slumpy]

They should've just listed the words you can search for, would've saves some space.

Re:Freedom

[Ender Ryan]

It seems that in the USA, the word Moore is filtered.

Sure, except that it's not.

Can we draw conclusions from that?

See above.

Re:What the ... !

[Rude Turnip]

I suppose if I mentioned "HP Lovecraft," you would think it has to do with inkjet printers?

Falun

[Anonymous Coward]

The citizens of Falun will sure be suprised to find that they too are on the blacklist..

Re:We're next

[Lorean]

Slashdot needs a 'paranoid' modding option.

Re:We're next

[MikeMacK]

I didn't know Herr Ashcroft was a regular /. reader? I've almost been modded down to TROLL. I hope Guantanomo has internet access, I'll miss /.

re: the list of English words

[prell]

I noticed that the blacklist of English words includes "shit" twice.

China also requires its citizens to wipe twice after excreting.

I can't resist

[Tairnyn]

In mother China, Google filters you

Re:This is insane

[Dun Malg]

Well, atleast they can search for 'cthulhu' ;)

heh. Everyone deserves the opportunity to be devoured first.

Re:We're next

[Peyna]

1250 fps? Talk about overkill, I'm usually happy with about 40-60.

Re:This is insane

[jbrax]

Unbelievable but true: TriangleBoy e.g. SafeWeb is CIA funded project.

And that anonymous-surfing technology turns out not to be very safe after all.