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==Online censorship in mainland China==
 
==Online censorship in mainland China==
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{{wikipedia|Internet censorship in mainland China}}
 
 
The Internet in the ''People's Republic of China'' mainland is censored, but ''not'' in the recently returned Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau. Taiwan being a completely different entity is also not blocked.
 
The Internet in the ''People's Republic of China'' mainland is censored, but ''not'' in the recently returned Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau. Taiwan being a completely different entity is also not blocked.
 
===Frequently censored words===
 
===Frequently censored words===
{{wikipedia|List of words censored by search engines in Mainland China}}
 
 
* 民主 (democracy)
 
* 民主 (democracy)
 
* 天安门母亲 (Tiananmen Mothers)
 
* 天安门母亲 (Tiananmen Mothers)
* 王丹 (Wang Dan)
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* 王丹 (Wang Dan)[[Media:'''bull crap'''''[[Italic text]]]]''
 
* 法轮功 (Falun Gong), or 法轮 or 轮功
 
* 法轮功 (Falun Gong), or 法轮 or 轮功
 
* 美国之音 (Voice of America)
 
* 美国之音 (Voice of America)
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* Zoneedit.com
 
* Zoneedit.com
 
* Yahoo Hong Kong
 
* Yahoo Hong Kong
 
* Some versions of [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] (varies from area to area)
{{wikipedia|Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China}}
 
* [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]
 
 
* BBC News
 
* BBC News
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* LiveJournal
 
 
===Formerly blocked sites===
 
===Formerly blocked sites===
 
* PHP.net: possibly blocked by China Telecom
 
* PHP.net: possibly blocked by China Telecom
 
* FreeBSD.org: blocked in December 2005-- release [http://www.shixiaotong.com/wp/?p=19]
 
* FreeBSD.org: blocked in December 2005-- release [http://www.shixiaotong.com/wp/?p=19]
 
* Google: [[wikia:c:google:Google in China|Google in China]]
 
* Google: [[wikia:c:google:Google in China|Google in China]]
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* *.sourceforge.net (but not the front page)
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*.sourceforge.net (but not the front page)
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Revision as of 05:47, 23 November 2019

Online censorship in mainland China

The Internet in the People's Republic of China mainland is censored, but not in the recently returned Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau. Taiwan being a completely different entity is also not blocked.

Frequently censored words

  • 民主 (democracy)
  • 天安门母亲 (Tiananmen Mothers)
  • 王丹 (Wang Dan)[[Media:bull crapItalic text]]
  • 法轮功 (Falun Gong), or 法轮 or 轮功
  • 美国之音 (Voice of America)
  • freenet

Current blocked sites

  • Geocities
  • Blogger (but not blogger.com)
  • Technorati (blog search engine)
  • Zoneedit.com
  • Yahoo Hong Kong
  • Some versions of Wikipedia (varies from area to area)
  • BBC News
  • LiveJournal

Formerly blocked sites

  • PHP.net: possibly blocked by China Telecom
  • FreeBSD.org: blocked in December 2005-- release [1]
  • Google: Google in China
  • .sourceforge.net (but not the front page)
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