Tongue in Cheek: Official Anti-Censorship Code Words
Via Valleywag.
Another bad day for Chinese dissidents as Yahoo gets accused of ratting out a third writer to the government, Skype admits to censoring Chinese conversations, and the NYT Magazine running a 10-page piece on Google's China trouble.
To avoid China's site blacklist, you'll need tools like the EFF's Tor system. For keyword censorship, there's always bad spelling. But this handy code-word list should prove helpful:
- "Falun Gong" = "The 700 Club"
- "Tiananmen Square" = "Lover's Lane"
- Any censored obscenity = "fiddle-faddle"
- "Democracy" = "Free beer"
- "Oppression" = "Toe-stubbing"
- "Dalai Lama" = "Big Bird"
Granted, if anyone in China is speaking in Chinese, you'll have to get your own damn list.
posted by Fergie @ 4/20/2006 06:33:00 AM
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