Sensitive Words: Singers and Tigers and Bloggers (Oh My)
As of January 29, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
by Josh Rudolph | Jan 29, 2015
As of January 29, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
by Anne Henochowicz | Sep 18, 2014
Update: The play on words in the blocked keyword “Liu Yunshan” is now explained. As of...
by Anne Henochowicz | Aug 1, 2014
As of August 1, the following search terms were blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jul 22, 2014
As of July 22, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jul 18, 2014
As of July 18, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jul 16, 2014
As of July 16, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jul 15, 2014
As of July 15, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 20, 2014
As of June 20, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jun 11, 2014
含笑酒泉 (hánxiào jiǔquán) smile in fountains of booze Play on the idiom “die happy,” literally “pass...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jun 4, 2014
“Internet Maintenance Day” has come again. As in previous years, Weibo is attempting...
by Natalie Ornell | Mar 21, 2014
At BloombergBusinessweek, Lulu Yilun Chen profiles Greatfire.org, a discrete anti-censorship...
by Natalie Ornell | Mar 20, 2014
The Next Web reports that Chinese web monitoring service GreatFire claims that Microsoft Bing...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 15, 2013
ProPublica has launched an interactive feature of tens of thousands of images that have been...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 24, 2013
On ChilaFile, CDT’s Translation Coordinator Anne Henochowicz discusses our first e-book,...
by Natalie Ornell | Jun 22, 2013
For Tea Leaf Nation, Jason Ng claims that Sina Weibo’s censorship has become increasingly opaque in the past months with the reduction of keyword blocks that allow one to easily discern banned search terms. Now, users can...
by Sophie Beach | May 31, 2013
Yesterday, Sina Weibo users reported that sensitive search terms, which had previously been blocked, were getting results: It seems like there is no longer any search censorship on Sina Weibo. I’m getting results for...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jan 29, 2013
As of January 29, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jan 9, 2013
After refusing to publish a Global Times article concerning the protests at Southern Weekly,...