[bitlug] chinese content filtering

  • From: Peeyush Prasad <peeyush@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bitlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, <bitcompsci02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <da_chambur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 08:58:36 +0530 (IST)

Wonder if something like this exits in India as well??
http://www.opennetinitiative.net/bulletins/005/
http://www.opennetinitiative.net/bulletins/006/
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/chinadn/en/archives/002885.html

quoting from the ucb page about banned words:
"About 15% of the words are sex related, the rest are all related to
politics. About 20% of the words are Falungong related, including
....(master) and .... (disciple); about 15% are names of current officials
and their relatives; about 10% are words used in the liberal political
discourse such as "democracy", "freedom", and "dictatorship"; and about 5%
are related to certain nationalistic issues, such as....(defend Diaoyu
Island),...... (Sino-Russian Border) ,....(selling out the country) etc.
About 15% of the forbidden words are related to anti-corruption, such as
......smuggling. ,.....public funds. etc. Other censored words include
names of dissidents, writers, and intellectuals, and names of certain
foreign publications."

-- P


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