Internet Filtering in China in 2004 2005 

b. General Political Content 

Figure 11   Political Content Google Results 

* We added  China  to the English term when conducting the Google search to focus the results. 

These results demonstrate moderate inaccessibility of English and Chinese language sites for the 

general terms  democracy,   human rights,  and  Jiang Zemin.   We performed a search for a common 

variation of Jiang Zemin's name used in criticism and satire by  replacing one of the characters of his 

name by the character for `thief'. 

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  Tested Chinese language sites with this variation were almost 

completely inaccessible (we could not run this search in English since it depends on the similarity of the 

terms in Chinese).  Sites listed in response to a search for the  Nine Commentaries,  a highly critical 

evaluation of the Chinese Communist Party published by the Epoch Times, were also nearly totally 

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 OpenNet Initiative, Filtering by Domestic Blog Providers in China, Jan. 14, 2005, available at 

http://www.opennetinitiative.net/bulletins/008/. 

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