Inside the mind of China's net nannies

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    6 May 2009

    Chinese cyberspace is abuzz with some leaked documents from the nation's main internet search engine baidu.com which give an insight into the paranoid mind of China's 'net nannies' or internet censors.

    I'm posting a translated list of some of the key censor-watchwords (below) because they shine some valuable light onto the sheer breadth of censorship on the Chinese web - from protecting state corporations, to major party figures as well as the more obvious prohibitions on the Tiananmen Square killings and certain unwanted 'evil cults' - mention no names.