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Contents 1 Online censorship in mainland China 1.1 Frequently censored words 1.2 Current blocked sites 1.3 Formerly blocked sites

[edit] Online censorship in mainland China

Wikipedia has an article on Internet censorship in mainland China

The Internet in the People's Republic of China mainland is censored, but not in the recently returned Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau. Taiwan being a completely different entity is also not blocked.

[edit] Frequently censored words

Wikipedia has an article on List of words censored by search engines in Mainland China

• 民主 (democracy)
• 天安门母亲 (Tiananmen Mothers)
• 王丹 (Wang Dan)
• 法轮功 (Falun Gong), or 法轮 or 轮功
• 美国之音 (Voice of America)
• freenet

[edit] Current blocked sites

• Geocities
• Blogger (but not blogger.com)
• Technorati (blog search engine)
• Zoneedit.com
• Yahoo Hong Kong

Wikipedia has an article on Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China

• Some versions of Wikipedia (varies from area to area)
• BBC News
• LiveJournal

[edit] Formerly blocked sites

• PHP.net: possibly blocked by China Telecom
• FreeBSD.org: blocked in December 2005-- release [1]
• Google: Google in China
• *.sourceforge.net (but not the front page)