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by papersmith 5881 days ago
I'm trying to wrap my head around how the whole thing works. On one hand, mundane stuffs are monitored, on the other hand, you have stuffs like these freely discussed:

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h...

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h...

According to wikipedia, this is on the 12th most popular site in China.

I think the censors operate on very crude keyword filters. As long as you avoid the few obvious keywords, it's not that easy to get caught. The domestic web sites get around the censor by agreeing to open backdoors for the filters, yet at the same time turn a blind eye to the real disruptive stuffs that got around it.