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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