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New Compilation of Banned Chinese Search-Terms Reveals Curiosities
An anonymous reader writes Canada's Citizen Lab has compiled data from various research projects around the world in an attempt to create a manageable Github repository of government-banned Chinese keywords in internet search terms and which may appear in Chinese websites. Until now the study of such terms has proved problematic due to disparate research methods and publishing formats. A publicly available online spreadsheet which CCL have provided to demonstrate the project gives an interesting insight into the reactive and eccentric nature of the Great Blacklist of China, as far as outside research can deduce. Aside from the inevitable column listings of dissidents and references to government officials and the events in Tiananmen Square in 1989, search terms as basic as "system" and "human body" appear to be blocked.
I was thinking exactly that. Why China? If anything, we'd be far more interested in the relevant lists of the countries whose ban lists have an actual impact on us.
Who cares about what's censored in China? We want to know what's censored at home!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
why dont you create one?
because chicks are crazy. especially Chinese ones.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
They should also ban: "Please enable javascript"
Disclaimer: I was from China
There supposed to be a difference between the "Good Guys" (ie The West) and the "BADDIES" (darn commies), but with all the NSA snoopin', the CIA "extraordinary rendering", the congress voted away all the rights of the citizens, and all that ...
Honestly, I dunno anymore
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Ìt's getting harder to tell by the minute. The paranoid in me would probably say that there are no good guys left, it's no longer white hats vs black hats, it's all just different shades of grey.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
There is a blacklist in Australia that the Govt is open about the existence of. The problem is you dont get to know what is on it and there have been numerous cases of sites being taken down for being incorrectly put on there.
To add - the Australian list is called the ACMA Blacklist - it was leaked in 2010 by wikileaks
There's a secret blacklist in the UK called Cleanfeed - it's supposed to be for child porn, but the contents of the list is a closely guarded secret, and it's already known from an incident where Wikipedia was briefly blocked by mistake that many ISPs will spoof a 404 message rather than reveal the reason for the block, so it's impossible to say how many non-child-porn pages are blocked.
TFA is the worst website design I've seen in several months. Here is the link to the original source, which is a bit easier to read.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Note that all the terms are not "banned". Searching for "system" will not take you to a blank results page. They are just terms for which some results are filtered, so I guess for "system" maybe information on alternative systems of government or something.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Who cares about what's censored in China? We want to know what's censored at home!
Google doesn't censor based on keyword in the US, or in almost any country. They do, however, remove websites from the search results. When that happens, they put a message in the results informing you what happened.
Also, they keep a collection of every website that's been removed, so you can see it.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I wonder if they are aware of this possibility.
Given the bans on credit card contributions to WikiLeaks and he behavior of RIAA and MPAA, and the very strange intellectual properties concerning computer software and the DMCA? Yes, I'd say content is being filtered. Also, given laws about child pornography and human torture depictions, I'd say yes, content is blocked in the USA and internationally.
China's filters are much, much broader, but it does not mean speech is completely free elsewhere.
(Yellow)
Or is that racist?
I found the one for Britain
Have gnu, will travel.
It's still on the menu at my favorite Chinese restaurant. Only they prefer that you call it chicken.
Have gnu, will travel.
... so what you're saying is that in China, baby chickens eat cats? Aren't you thinking "In Soviet Russia..."
It used to be 10 Mythical Creatures how many will it be now?
There's a secret blacklist in the UK called Cleanfeed - it's supposed to be for child porn, but the contents of the list is a closely guarded secret, and it's already known from an incident where Wikipedia was briefly blocked by mistake that many ISPs will spoof a 404 message rather than reveal the reason for the block, so it's impossible to say how many non-child-porn pages are blocked.
Given the porno laws in the UK the very *words* in the blacklist would probably make the list itself child porn.
So thats why they can't show you the blacklist; they'd be distributing child porn!
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Never encountered a "We had to remove 2 results due to some DMCA rubbish" search result from Google?
And don't gimme "but that's the law" bullshit. It's the law in China to censor those pages that you don't get to see. Just 'cause something is the law doesn't mean that it's right.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.