Sensitive Words: Lin Zhao, Pornography, More

Sensitive Words: Lin Zhao, Pornography, More

As of April 28, the following search terms are blocked on Sina  (not including the “search for user” function).

Rightists and Liberals

  • Lin Zhao+rightist (林昭+右派): Lin Zhao was executed on April 29, 1968 after spending years in prison for speaking out against the Chinese Communist Party. Ironically, she had been a devoted communist as a teenager and once referred to Mao Zedong as her “father,” before changing her views during the Anti-Rightist Movement.
  • Lin Zhao+pay respects (林昭+扫墓)
  • 25th anniversary commemoration (25周年纪念): 2014 marks 25 years since the student protests in Tiananmen Square and other Chinese cities, which were brutally suppressed in June 1989.

Official Corruption

Absconding Soldier

Crackdown on Pornography

  • pornography (色情): Sina has lost publication licenses and twice apologized for allowing lewd content on its websites.
  • seduce (诱惑)
  • woman+associate (女+交): It is unclear what this character combination refers to, but it is probably related to the government’s ongoing sweep of online pornography. Jiāo 交 can mean many things, “have intercourse” among them.

Via CDT Chinese.

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All Chinese-language words are tested using simplified characters. The same terms in traditional characters occasionally return different results.

CDT Chinese runs a project that crowd-sources filtered keywords on  search. CDT independently tests the keywords before posting them, but some searches later become accessible again. We welcome readers to contribute to this project so that we can include the most up-to-date information.

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