Banned from Discussion: List of Community Forums Censored by Baidu
Baidu Post Bar ????, operated by the China’s leading search engine company, Baidu, is one of the country’s most popular online communities, where individual discussion communities (“post bars”) are generated by Baidu users based on common search keywords. Through these groups, users can instantly join a discussion thread about the keywords they search on Baidu. Users have established more than 1.2 million Baidu communities. Internet censorship is very strictly enforced in these communities. Hence, some netizens have generated a Wikipedia page to keep a list of all the post bars that have been blocked by Baidu. This incomplete list gives an indication of what topics censors do not want netizens to discuss online. CDT has selected and translated some of them here.
Each of the following keywords are names of blocked post bars.
Politically Sensitive Words
Political parties:
??? (Communist Party), ?? (the Chinese Communist Party), and other related similar words such as ?? (gong chan), ?? (gong dang), GCD , ???, ccp? cpc? communism? communist party
?? (oppose CCP) and ?? (Evil Party)
words related to other political parties such as ???(KMT), kmt, ???(the Republican Party), ???(the Democratic Party), ???(DPP), ?? (the New Party), ??? (the Workers’Party, supposedly of North Korea)
Government sectors:
?? (prime minister), ??(chairman), ??? (state council), ??, ??? (the Fifty Cent Party), ??? (ministry of culture), ?????? (the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party), etc.
Political leaders:
??? (Mao Zedong) and related words such as??? (Mao Zedong), ??? (dong ze mao), mzd, ?? (ze dong)
??? (Liu Shaoqi)
??? (Deng Xiaoping), ? (Deng), ???(ping xiao deng)
??? (Hu Yaobang), ?? (Yaobang)
??? (Zhao Ziyang), zhaoziyang
??? (Jiang Zemin), ?? (Zemin), ?? (Jiang Zei) ??? (min ze jiang), jzm
??? (Hu Jintao), ?? (hu jin), ?? (Jintao), ????(?? taken apart), ??? (jin tao hu), hjt
??? (Wen Jiabao), wjb, ?+? (wen + bao)
???? (Qiangba Puncog)
??? (Donald Tsang)
Current governmental policies:
??(the Golden Shield), GFW, ???? (internet blocking), ???? (the Three Representatives), ?? (harmony), ??? (Do not sway), ??? (Do not slacken off), ???(Do not flip flop), ?? (vulgar), ??? (anti-vulgar)
Organizations:
??? (Falun Gong), ?? (Falun), FLG, ?? (consummation)
??? (Li Hongzhi), ?? (Hongzhi), hongzhi, lhz, ??? (Teacher Li)
?? (Nine Commentaries), ?? (Three Renouncements), ??? (the Epoch Times), ??? (Sujiatun)
?? (Tibetan independence), ?? (Dalai), ?? (Lama), dalai
?? (Taiwan independence)
?? (Xinjiang independence), ?? (East Turkistan)
Media
CNN
VOA
?????? (RFA), RFA
???? (Deutsche Welle)
Political Concepts
?? (freedom)
?? (democracy)
?? (despotism)
?? (dictatorship)
?? (corruption)
?? (blockade)
?? (oppression)
?? (prosecution)
??( tyranny)
??? (republic)
?? (people)
?? (expression)
?? (the authorities)
?? (news)
?? (assembly)
?? (protest)
?? (strike)
?? (slave)
?? (constitution)
?? (legal system)
?? (government)
?? (politics)
?? (truth)
?? (society)
????? (corruption, corrupted official)
?? (resistance)
?? (democracy movement)
?? (riot)
?? (revolution)
?? (independence)
?? (angry youth)
?? (shit youth)
Historical events:
Chinese dynasties such as ?? (Yuan Dynasty), ? (Yuan), ?? (Qing Dynasty), ? (Qing)
??? (Nine One Eight), 918 (related to the “?????” Mukden Incident)
????? (Nanking Massacre)
????? (the Cultural Revolution)
???? (Reform and Opening)
??????????????? (SARS)
512?referring to the May 12, 2008 Sichuan Earthquake?
(references to “six four,” referring to the June 4 massacre, including:)
64
6.4
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1989
4698?8964 reversed?
??? (sixty-four)
???? (June 4th)
liusi
sixfour
sf
eightnine
june4
june4th
63+1
62+2
???? (transition from Spring to Summer)?
??? (Feng Congde)
?? (Wang Dan)
?? (Chai Ling)
???? (Wuerkaixi)
Politicians in Other Countries and Regions:
Taiwan
??? (Lee Teng-hui)
??? (Chen Shui-bian)
??? (Ma Ying-jeou)
?? (Li Ao)
USA
?? (Bush)
??? (Obama), obama
Japan
?? (Emperor of Japan), ?? (Akihito)
????? (Junichiro Koizumi)
???? (Shinzo Abe), ?? (Abe)
???? (Yasuo Fukuda)
???? (Taro Aso)
North Korea
??? (Kim Il-sung)
??? (Kim Jong-il)
the former Soviet Union
??? (Stalin)
Religion:
??? (Christianity), ?? (Christ), jidujiao (Christianity), ???(Catholicism), ??? (Eastern Orthodox Church), ?? (Protestant Church), ????? (Jesus), yesu (Jesus), jesus, ??? (Jesus), ?? (Bible), ??? (crucifixion), ??? (Crusade)
???? (Islam), ??? (Islam), ??? (Sunni Islam), ??? (Shia Islam), ????? (Allah),??? (Qur’an)
?? (Buddhism), ???? (Shakyamuni), ? (Buddha), ????(Amitabha), ?? (Tathagata), ?? (monk), ?? (nun), ?? (Pabbajja)
??? (Hinduism)
?? (Taoism), ? (Tao), ?? (Taoist)
?? (cult)
Weapons:
? (gun) ?? (handgun), ?? (air gun), ?? (detonator), ?? (bomb), ??? (atomic bomb), ?? (machine gun), ??? (submachine gun), ?? (rifle), ??? (snipe), ??? (incendiary bomb), etc.
Names of Countries, Regions, and Ethnic Groups:
?? (China), China?Chinese, ?? (China), PRC
?? (Hong Kong) (bar where only members are allowed to publish posts.)
?? (Taiwan), taiwan, tw
???? (the Republic of China)
?? (Xinjiang), xj, xinjiang
?? (Tibet, xi zang in Pinyin), ? (zang), ?? (zang xi), tibet, xizang, xz
?? (Weng’an)
China’s ethnic groups such as ?? (Han Chinese), ?? (Tibetans), ?? (Manchu), ??? (Mongolian), ?? (Hui), ???? (Uighurs), ??? (Koreans), ???? (Russians)
?? (USA), ??? (American), meiguo, ???(America), ?????? (the United States of America), America, American, USA
??(Japan),?, ???(Japanese), ?? (yueben, which resembles ?? in characters), ri, riben, ribenren, rb, Jap, Japan, Japanese, ??(Yamato), ???? (Yamato people)
?? (the Soviet Union), ??? (Soviet)
?? (Mongolia)
??? (Arab)
??? (Israel)
?????? (Judaism, Jewish people)
???? (Palestine)
???? (Jerusalem), jerusalem
?? (North Korea), ?? (South Korea), ?? (Goryeo), korea
Names of historical sites:
???? (Yasukuni Shrine) ?? (Yasukuni, literally “defending the country”)
??? (Tiananmen)
Negative figures and organizations:
??? (Hitler), ??? (Adolf), hitler
???? (Mussolini)
???? (Hideki Tojo)
?? (Al Qaeda), ?? (Bin Laden)
??? (Yamaguchi-gumi)
??? (Skinhead)
Sexual content:
?? (penis) ?? (cock)
?? (vagina), vagina
?? (breast)
?? (anus)
?? (mating), ?? (sexual intercourse), ?? (oral sex), ? (intercourse), ??? (masturbation)
?? (erection)
?? (ejaculation)
?? (rape)
?? (“?” separated)
? (sex), ?? (eroticism),
??? (prostitute), ?? (“?” separated)
names of Japanese adult video actresses such as Madoka Ozawa
Violence:
? (kill), ?? (suicide)
?? (slow slicing)
?? (self castration)
?? (Seppuku)
Profane language:
?(fuck), fuck
?? (bastard)
Language related to Baidu:
??? (anti-Baidu), ???? (Baidu trash), ???? (Baidu bankrupt)
??? (does not exist) (Note: after a bar is blocked, what shows on the screen when you search the keyword on Baidu is “xx bar does not exist.”)
???(moderator)
Others:
???? (10 Mythical Creatures), ??? (Cao Ni Ma, literally “Grass Mud Horse”), ?? (Grass Mud), ???? (Mahler Gobi), ??? (Fa Ke Yu, literally “French-Croatian Squid”), ??? (Wei Shen Jing, literally “Superior Tail Whale”); (for more details, see the Wikipedia page “Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures”.)
?? (Du Chai, literally “Vicious Jackal,”which is pronounced similar to the word ??, dictatorship, in Chinese)
?? (Ming Zhu, literally “Mooing Pig,”pronounced similar to the word ??, democracy, in Chinese)
?? (Big Brother Chun, referring to the female singer Li Yuchun), ????? (Brother Chun is all man)
?? (gamble), ?? (casino), ??? (Mark Six)
?? (drug), ?? (marijuana), ?? (opium), ?? (morphine)
?? (Japanese army)
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See also from CDT: “A List of Censored Words in Chinese Cyberspace.”
