The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab published the results of - TopicsExpress



          

The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab published the results of an ongoing study analyzing censorship on the app, and found there were 535 terms outlawed for Chinese users. [...] By reverse-engineering the Android app, Citizen Lab found that when it was registered to Chinese phone numbers, censorship functionality was enabled. Most of the banned keywords mention Chinese government officials, like controversial former party leader Hu Jintao, or controversial political events. Fifteen percent of the censored terms referenced the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Targets of Chinese aggression like the Falun Gong religious sect and Tibet were also blocked, as well as terms involving the Uyghur, a mostly Islamic people in China with a growing insurgency the government is keen to subdue. Read the full report: https://citizenlab.org/2014/04/line-censored-keywords-update/
Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2014 12:46:42 +0000

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