Internet Filtering in China in 2004 2005 

3. Political Topics 

Our results show minimal overblocking in this category; one of three sites tested containing the 

string  64  (corresponding to the June 4th date of Tiananmen Square) was blocked in proxy testing but 

not in state, and neither of the URLs we tested containing  hric  (the acronym for Human Rights in 

China) was blocked in either method. 

Figure 24   Political Topic Overblocking 

In State 

Proxy 

Sites Tested 

Result 

Result 

Description 

http://www.ai cit.sk/people/PhD/hric/ 

Accessible 

N/A 

Marcel Hric, PhD student 

http://www.neural.it/nnews/sixfour.htm 

Accessible 

N/A 

Italian hactivism 

http://www.x86 64.org/ 

Accessible 

Blocked 

Open Source software 

Accessible 

Accessible 

Human Resources 

http://www.hric.org/ 

Independent Consultants 

Accessible 

Accessible 

Theater in Ontario, 

http://www.centre square.com/ 

Canada 

http://www.hr.duke.edu/hric/ 

Accessible 

Accessible 

Duke Human Resources 

http://www.hoobly.com/members/tsquare/ 

Accessible 

Accessible 

Classified Ads 

Accessible 

Accessible 

English language 

http://www.bartleby.com/64/ 

reference 

http://www.macminute.com/2004/12/23/ 

Accessible 

64 bit/ 

Accessible 

Computer development 

Total (9 sites) 

0% 

14%   

4. Taiwan 

Similar to the above categories, we found evidence of overblocking only in our proxy testing. 

Figure 25   Taiwan Overblocking 

In State 

Proxy 

Sites Tested 

Result 

Result 

Description 

Accessible 

Blocked 

Chinese government 

http://english.people.com.cn/data/province/ 

site on "Taiwan 

taiwan.html 

Province" 

http://www.askaroo.com/info/ 

Accessible 

Blocked 

Page lacks any 

Taiwanindependence.html 

substantive content 

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/ 

Accessible 

north_east_asia/taipei/ 

Accessible 

Travel guide to Taipei 

Total (3 sites) 

0% 

67%   

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