{"id":170982,"date":"2014-04-02T17:57:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T00:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=170982"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:35:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T16:35:59","slug":"sensitive-px-protests-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/04\/sensitive-px-protests-tigers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensitive: PX Protests, Tigers, More"},"content":{"rendered":"
As of March 31, the following search terms are blocked on Sina\u00a0Weibo\u00a0(not including the \u201csearch for user\u201d function).<\/em><\/p>\n Crackdown on Environmental Protest:<\/strong> The call to halt construction of a\u00a0paraxylene\u00a0(PX) processing plant in Maoming, Guangdong has been met with violent police suppression, according to online accounts.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Power Tigers Felled:<\/strong> On March 24, the central government announced the dismissal of Three Gorges Corporation’s chairman of the board and president, leading to speculation about an oncoming “seismic shift” in China’s energy industry<\/a> [zh].<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blocked Name:\u00a0<\/strong>Tan Zuoren<\/a> (\u8c2d\u4f5c\u4eba), who just completed a five-year prison sentence following his investigation of school collapses in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.<\/p>\n Via CDT Chinese<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>Browse all of CDT\u2019s collected sensitive words on our bilingual\u00a0Google spreadsheet<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n All Chinese-language words are tested using simplified characters. The same terms in traditional characters occasionally return different results.<\/em><\/p>\n CDT Chinese runs a project that crowd-sources filtered keywords on\u00a0Sina Weibo<\/a>\u00a0search. 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.<\/em><\/p>\n Have a sensitive word tip? Submit it to CDT through this form:<\/em><\/p>\n\n
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