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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.
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 !
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.
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.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
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."