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Googling Behind China's Great Firewall

Posted by timothy on from the wot's-all-this-then dept.

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."

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  1. I'm behind the by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:I'm behind the by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Funny

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

      "I no you! Understand?" ;-P

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    2. Re:I'm behind the by winkydink · · Score: 5, Funny

      Pidgin English is too similar to filtered English.

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  2. They'll never even see this?! by garcia · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

  3. And the /. effect... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. Did you know? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:Did you know? by darth_MALL · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  5. Incest banned, Pedophilia OK? by winkydink · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess the Chinese govt has problems with big words.

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  6. A sample list by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  7. Brutal! by eigerface · · Score: 5, Funny


    I work behind my company's firewall.

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

  8. Re:s.e.x is filtered out... by winkydink · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  9. I can't resist by Tairnyn · · Score: 4, Funny

    In mother China, Google filters you

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