{"id":153252,"date":"2013-03-19T18:53:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T01:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=153252"},"modified":"2013-05-03T08:30:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T15:30:14","slug":"sensitive-words-the-romance-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/03\/sensitive-words-the-romance-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensitive Words: The Romance Is Over"},"content":{"rendered":"
As of March 19, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo<\/a> (not including the \u201csearch for user\u201d function).<\/em><\/p>\n Leadership Transition:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Tao-Bao (\u6d9b\u5b9d): Playing on the name of the online shopping site Taobao, this is a term of endearment for Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao. See the “prime minister and chairman edit” of Fish Leong<\/a>‘s “Sadly, It’s Not You” below. [youtube]http:\/\/youtu.be\/2IC35VIzwQs[\/youtube]<\/p>\n Chengdu Construction Woes:<\/strong> Chengdu Party Secretary Huang Xinchu has undertaken major construction in the city, snarling traffic, stirring up dust, and irking residents. All Chinese-language words are tested using simplified characters. The same terms in traditional characters occasionally return different results.<\/em><\/p>\n Browse all of CDT\u2019s collected sensitive words in this bilingual Google spreadsheet<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n CDT Chinese runs a project that crowd-sources filtered keywords on Sina Weibo 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. To add words, check out the form at the bottom of CDT Chinese\u2019s latest sensitive words post<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As of March 19, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the \u201csearch for user\u201d function). Leadership Transition: \u2022\u00a0Tao-Bao (\u6d9b\u5b9d): Playing on the name of the online shopping site Taobao, this is a term of endearment for Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao. See the “prime minister and chairman edit” of Fish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":991,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,14748,14744,100,5,4202],"tags":[53,3106,16115,5810,6300,15035,15945,1949,14820,5936,4674],"class_list":["post-153252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-gmh","category-level-2-article","category-politics","category-society","category-translation","tag-censorship","tag-chengdu","tag-chengdu-px","tag-hu-jintao","tag-internet-censorship","tag-leadership-transition","tag-sensitive-words-series","tag-taobao","tag-weibo","tag-wen-jiabao","tag-xi-jinping","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n\u2022\u00a0Chief Xi (\u5e2d\u603b): \u5e2d X\u00ed sounds the same as \u4e60 X\u00ed, as in Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0Digger Huang (\u9ec4\u6316\u6316): A nickname for Huang Xinchu. Coincidentally, “Digger Huang” (\u9ec4\u6316\u6316 Hu\u00e1ng W\u0101w\u0101) sounds similar to “Baby Huang” (\u9ec4\u5a03\u5a03 Hu\u00e1ng W\u00e1wa).
\n\u2022\u00a0Huang WW (\u9ec4WW)
\n\u2022\u00a0Huang Xinchu + end class (\u9ec4\u65b0\u521d+\u4e0b\u8bfe): Netizens are complaining about Huang; some hope he will “leave the classroom” and step down from his post.
\n\u2022\u00a0Pengzhou + petrochemical industry (\u5f6d\u5dde+\u77f3\u5316): An oil refinery project is already complete in nearby Pengzhou.<\/p>\n