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...
blocked keywords
Sensitive Words: Sending Away the Plague God (Updated)
Update: The play on words in the blocked keyword “Liu Yunshan” is now explained. As of...
Sensitive: Anti-Communists Hack Wenzhou TV
As of August 1, the following search terms were blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
Sensitive Words: Alibaba’s Political Ties
As of July 22, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for...
Sensitive Words: New Gang of Four and More
As of July 18, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for...
Sensitive: Master of the Starry Skies and More
As of July 16, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
Sensitive: Rumors on PLA Singer Song Zuying, More
As of July 15, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
Sensitive Words: Returning From Exile, Hunting Tigers
As of June 20, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
Saying of the Week: Smile in Fountains of Booze
含笑酒泉 (hánxiào jiǔquán) smile in fountains of booze Play on the idiom “die happy,” literally “pass...
Sensitive Words: June 4th
“Internet Maintenance Day” has come again. As in previous years, Weibo is attempting...
Who’s Behind Greatfire.org?
At BloombergBusinessweek, Lulu Yilun Chen profiles Greatfire.org, a discrete anti-censorship...
Does Microsoft Bing Censor More Than Baidu?
The Next Web reports that Chinese web monitoring service GreatFire claims that Microsoft Bing...
How to Get Censored on China’s Twitter
ProPublica has launched an interactive feature of tens of thousands of images that have been...
ChinaFile Video: Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon (Updated)
On ChilaFile, CDT’s Translation Coordinator Anne Henochowicz discusses our first e-book,...
Weibo Censors Difficult To Detect
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...
Sina Tests Out New Censorship Methods
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...
Sensitive Words: Warm, Sly, Fake
As of January 29, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
Sensitive Words: Beijing News Enters Fray
After refusing to publish a Global Times article concerning the protests at Southern Weekly,...
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