List of words blocked by search engines in Mainland China |
The government of the People s Republic of China has set up a system of internet censorship, intending to block internet users within Mainland China from accessing material deemed undesirable, such as foreign news sites, sites with dissident political content, many Taiwanese websites, and pornography. This system is described in greater detail at Internet censorship in mainland China.
One part of the block is to disallow certain terms from being used on search engines. These search engines include both international ones (e.g. Google and Yahoo!) as well as domestic ones (e.g. Baidu, Sohu). Attempting to search for such a term results in a The page cannot be displayed error. Repeatedly attempting to search for blocked terms results in the entire search engine being blocked for several minutes, presumably for the same IP address.
The following is a list of words that are blocked in this way. In general, if a term is blocked, then any sequence containing the term is also blocked. For example, since 法轮 ( falun , or dharma chakra ) is blocked, so are 法轮功 (Falun Gong) and 转法轮 ( Turning dharma chakra ). Also, only the Chinese terms are blocked, while the English terms are freely searchable (unless specified otherwise).
This list is not intended to be exhaustive and is accurate as of June 2005. Most were verified for Simplified Chinese searches for the Baidu search engine. It is known that trying from different locations inside and outside China, on different search engines, and at different times can yield different results.
= General concepts =
*民主 (democracy) *人权 (human rights)
= Events =
*中俄边界 (Sino-Russian border) - refers to the recent Sino-Russian Border Treaty, which has been attacked by nationalists and dissident groups as a betrayal of Chinese sovereign and dignity **黑瞎子岛 (Heixiazi Island) and 银龙岛 (Yinlong Island), however, are not blocked *六四 (June 4) - June 4th is the usual Chinese name for the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. In contrast, Tiananmen refers to a geographical place and does not usually have the same connotations. **天安门 (Tiananmen) is not blocked
= Xinjiang & Tibet =
*疆独 (Xinjiang independence) *藏独 (Tibetan independence) *流亡 (exile) - e.g. Government of Tibet in Exile *达赖 ( dalai , as in Dalai Lama) *· (Gedhun Choekyi Nyima), · (Gedhun Choekyi-), and (Choekyi Nyima)
= Dissident groups =
*Since 民主 (democracy) is blocked, any political group with that name is also blocked. This includes both dissident groups like 中国民主正义党 ( ) *天安门母亲 (Tiananmen Mothers)
= Dissidents =
= National leaders =
= Dissident news =
*大参考 (Dacankao) [http://www.bignews.org/] *博讯 (Boxun) [http://www.boxun.com/] *华夏文摘 (China News Digest) [http://www.cnd.org/] *多维 (Chinese News Net) [http://www.chinesenewsnet.com/] *纪元 (Epoch), the second and third characters of 大纪元 (Epoch Times) [http://www.dajiyuan.com/] *自由亚洲, first four characters of 自由亚洲电台 (Radio Free Asia) [http://www.rfa.org/] *人民报 (Renminbao), [http://www.renminbao.com/] *peacehall — same as Boxun *美国之音 (Voice of America)
= Falun Gong =
*法轮 ( falun , or dharma chakra )
= Taiwan =
*民进党 (Democratic Progressive Party) **台湾团结联盟 (Taiwan Solidarity Union), 中华民国 (Republic of China), and 台独 (Taiwanese independence) are not blocked *陈水扁 (Chen Shui-bian) **But 吕秀莲 (Annette Lu) and 李登辉 (Lee Teng-hui) are not blocked
= Pornography =
*花花公子 (Playboy)
= Circumventing the block =
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