This infographic contains a list of censored keywords (highlighted in red) and websites that are currently blocked in China.
There are generally two kinds of internet censorship in China – they either completely block a website from users or they instruct local search engines to modify search results for certain keywords.
For instance, sites like IMDB and BBC are inaccessible from within China and some of them may not even appear in the search results of local search engines like Baidu or Sohu. The next form of censorship is keyword based. If you search for a censored keyword (say “Human Rights”) in a Chinese search engine, you’ll see few or no results.
InfoBeautiful has turned this list of censored keywords and websites that are currently blocked in China into a nice visualization and the more interesting part is that image looks like the map of China itself.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/sites-blocked-in-china/12450/
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Reader Comments
Many unblocked English language sites, such as the BBC (www.bbc.co.uk), are easily accessible in China while their Chinese language equivalent sites are blocked.
Written by ColeslawPatriot on 01.14.10
<sites like IMDB and BBC are inaccessible from within China
Not true. We can get the BBC here in Beijing and on TV too.
Written by Ivan on 01.15.10
I suppose it would be considered seditious to suggest that on current performance there isn’t a huge gain for China in dropping the Great Firewall too quickly. Their rate of change is already very high, and Western/capitalist democracy is currently no great advertisement of the integrity of the unrestrained market.
I see the gain to external economies, who wish to exploit the last remaining (and the biggest) mass market for their own purposes. I don’t see the gain to China. Perhaps we could give them more reason to drop the firewall by becoming better neighbors?
Written by Steve Holden on 01.16.10