[Foundation-l] Wikipedia still partly blocked on mainland China

Sat Jul 12 03:33:13 UTC 2008

There are of course other words that are blocked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_censored_by_search_engines_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China

On 11/07/2008, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
>  <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Andrew Lih wrote:
>  >> Hi Oscar,
>  >>
>  >> It's pretty much well known to folks using the Internet in China that
>  >> any site, not just Wikipedia, is subject to blocking if the page
>  >> contains sensitive keywords, so not sure there is much WP community
>  >> can do other than to just chug along. At least this is a lot better
>  >> than just last year when it was all blocked
>  >>
>  >> -Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
>  >>
>  >
>  > Heh,...
>  >
>  > 1. Do we know what these sensitive keywords are?
>
>
> Generally what is dubbed 3T1F : Tiananmen, Tibet and Taiwan
>  independence, Falungong. You had the weird/amusing case of last week's
>  (good) news of cross-strait direct China-Taiwan flights being stopped
>  by the Great Firewall because the Chinese words for "cross-strait"
>  triggered blocks. Such is the problem with simple keyword blocking.
>
>
>  > 2. Any point in munging them during the olympics?
>
>
> Not particularly, as most reporters hopefully will have access to some
>  type of VPN. I've given some talks to the journalist groups here about
>  that.
>
>
>  > 3. Would it make any difference in the long run?
>
>
> When one controls the hardware routers between your browser and the
>  web sites, that's where most of the power lies. Technical means can
>  only do so much in the long run.
>
>  -Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
>
>
>
>  > Yours,
>  >
>  > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
>  >
>  >
>  >
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