“The Chinese government seems relatively unconcerned with the detailed means to “manage” user content as long as the end result is successful” (38).
1. Tests held in late 2005 concluded that mention of Tibetan independence or the banned Falun Gong religious movement on Bokee, then China’s “largest domestic blog-hosting site with 3.2 million bloggers,” took between 24 hours and one week to detect (38).
2. Mention of such sensitive subjects was detected and removed from Sina.com, “one of China’s largest and most well-established web portals which includes a fast-growing blog-hosting service,” within hours (38).
3. Blogcn, by using an automated censorship system, prevented the user from posting particular words and phrases altogether (38).
4. Blogbus allowed posts containing sensitive phrases to be published, but “the system’s keyword software would replace the offending phrases with an “'*' in place of each character in the banned phrase” (38).
MacKinnon, Rebecca. “Flatter world and thicker walls? Blogs, censorship and civic discourse in China.” Public Choice 134.1 (2008): 31-46.
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