Chinese Censorship Dictionary

反共 Anticommunist

2007-11-18T21:12:00.000-08:00

2 words affected:
反共反共 [fan3 gong4] /anti-communism/
反共主義反共主义 [fan3 gong4 zhu3 yi4] /anti-communism/

Do you know why 反共 Anticommunist is censored?

法屬印度支那 French Indo-China

2007-11-13T02:13:00.000-08:00

1 word affected:
法屬印度支那法属印度支那 [Fa3 shu3 Yin4 du4 zhi1 na4] /French Indochina/

Do you know why 法屬印度支那 French Indo-China is censored?

Do 38% of people think censorship is stupid?

2007-11-06T00:13:00.000-08:00

When the world searches for censorship, 38% of the time it's right alongside 'stupid'. Why? Do 38% of people think censorship is stupid?

A sample of Yahoo.com search queries reveals that of 9476 searches in January for censorship, 3592 were for stupid censorship. Does this mean that 38% of people think censorship is stupid? No. These searches are no indication of attitude. They want to avoid censorship and are looking for the first search result returned to them. It's www.stupidcensorship.com, the famous anonymizing web proxy run by Peacefire, acting against internet censorship since 1996.

Below is the search query data provided by Overture, a Yahoo company.

Searches done in January 2007
Count Search Term
9476 censorship
3592 censorship stupid
1418 censorship music
1155 censorship internet
584 bypass censorship internet
576 book censorship
493 censorship media
488 censorship unnecessary
404 censorship tv
380 censorship television
242 art censorship
233 censorship pro
227 censorship in music
216 article censorship
203 censorship game video
200 censorship stupid web
197 anti censorship

暴政 Tyranny

2007-10-28T04:28:00.001-07:00

暴政暴政 [bao4 zheng4] /tyranny/despotic rule/

八九不離十 ????

2007-10-28T04:27:00.000-07:00

Literally translates to : Eight and nine are not separated from ten.

大法官 Justice

2007-10-25T04:09:00.000-07:00

2 words affected:
大法官大法官 [da4 fa3 guan1] /grand justice/high court justice/supreme court justice/
首席大法官首席大法官 [shou3 xi2 da4 fa3 guan1] /Chief Justice (of US Supreme Court)/

蒙独 Mongolian independence

2007-10-25T04:08:00.002-07:00

反共 Anti-comunist

2007-10-25T04:08:00.001-07:00

2 words affected:
反共反共 [fan3 gong4] /anti-communism/
反共主義反共主义 [fan3 gong4 zhu3 yi4] /anti-communism/

封从德 Feng Congde

2007-10-25T04:07:00.000-07:00

委迫 Commisioned Force

2007-10-25T04:06:00.002-07:00

关于中 On Sino

2007-10-25T04:06:00.001-07:00

中宣部 Central Propaganda Department

2007-10-25T04:05:00.001-07:00

流亡 Exile

2007-10-25T04:04:00.000-07:00

3 words affected:
流亡流亡 [liu2 wang2] /to (force into) exile/
流亡在海外流亡在海外 [liu2 wang2 zai4 hai3 wai4] /to be in exile overseas/
流亡政府流亡政府 [liu2 wang2 zheng4 fu3] /(n) government-in-exile/

镇压 Repression

2007-10-25T04:03:00.000-07:00

1 word affected:
鎮壓镇压 [zhen4 ya1] /suppression/repression/to suppress/to put down/to quell/

独裁 Dictatorship

2007-10-25T04:02:00.001-07:00

2 words affected:
獨裁独裁 [du2 cai2] /dictatorship/
獨裁者独裁者 [du2 cai2 zhe3] /dictator/

专政 Dictatorship

2007-10-25T04:00:00.000-07:00

1 word affected:
人民民主專政人民民主专政 [ren2 min2 min2 zhu3 zhuan1 zheng4] /people's democratic dictatorship/
專政专政 [zhuan1 zheng4] /dictatorship/

专制 Autocratic

2007-10-25T03:58:00.000-07:00

1 word affected:
專制专制 [zhuan1 zhi4] /(n) autocracy; dictatorship/

绝食 Hunger Strike

2007-10-25T03:56:00.000-07:00

1 word affected:
絕食绝食 [jue2 shi2] /to go on a hunger strike/

两岸关系 Cross-strait relations

2007-10-25T03:51:00.001-07:00

1 word affected:
海峽兩岸關係協會海峡两岸关系协会 [hai3 xia2 liang3 an4 guan1 xi5 xie2 hui4] /PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS)/

东土耳其斯坦 East Turkistan

2007-10-25T03:41:00.000-07:00

酷刑 Torture

2007-10-25T03:40:00.001-07:00

1 words affected:
酷刑酷刑 [ku4 xing2] /cruelty/torture/

色情 Pornography

2007-10-25T03:38:00.002-07:00

4 words affected:
男同性戀色情片男同性恋色情片 [nan2 tong2 xing4 lian4 se4 qing2 pian4] /gay pornography/
色情色情 [se4 qing2] /pornography/pornographic/
色情小說色情小说 [se4 qing2 xiao3 shuo1] /pornographic novel/dirty book/
網際色情网际色情 [wang3 ji4 se4 qing2] /cyberporn/

六四 June 4th

2007-10-25T03:38:00.001-07:00

中共军 Chinese Army

2007-10-25T03:37:00.001-07:00

中共党 CPC Party

2007-10-25T03:36:00.000-07:00

工联 ICFTU

2007-10-25T03:34:00.000-07:00

ICFTU is a confederation of 215 national trade union centres in 145 countries -www.icftu.org

工自联 Since the Public

2007-10-25T03:33:00.000-07:00

支那 Shina

2007-10-25T03:28:00.000-07:00

支那人 means War

3 words affected:
法屬印度支那法属印度支那 [Fa3 shu3 Yin4 du4 zhi1 na4] /French Indochina/
印度支那印度支那 [Yin4 du4 zhi1 na4] /Indochina/
支那支那 [zhi1 na4] /Shina (derogatory Japanese term for China)/

柴玲 CAI Ling

2007-10-25T03:13:00.000-07:00

方舟子 Story

2007-10-25T03:11:00.000-07:00

论衡 Lun Heng

2007-10-25T03:09:00.000-07:00

Lun Heng is a Taiwanese Law Firm

游行 The Procession

2007-10-25T03:00:00.000-07:00

3 words affected:

舊金山同志驕傲大遊行旧金山同志骄傲大游行 [Jiu4 jin1 shan1 tong2 zhi4 jiao1 ao4 da4 you2 xing2] /San Francisco Pride/
示威遊行示威游行 [shi4 wei1 you2 xing2] /a (protest) demonstration/
遊行游行 [you2 xing2] /march/parade/demonstration/