Nine Ways Beijing Censors the Internet

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    Date: 
    30 March 2010

    Here’s a brief description of the various forms of Internet censorship put in place by the Chinese regime to keep citizens in the dark. Jason Ng of kenengba.com has identified nine different ways one can encounter being blocked, filtered, and ordered about when surfing the net in China.

    Jason says Chinese netizens have learned to use homonyms, radical and irrelevant characters, and other tricks to enable their articles to sneak past “Big Mamas,” or “Red Tape,” or invitations to “have tea” with the police.