Tag: China Keyword
Keyword flagging in China: Censorship or surveillance?
August 1, 2013
From eConsultancy – What do censorship and surveillance programmes look for? What can this tell us about internet usage in China? Can we contrast with the perceived surveillance state of the West? What are the implications for a company in the Chinese market? Unsurprisingly, there are lots of questions still to be answered about the state of the internet in China. First Monday has this month published a very interesting paper, presenting an analysis of data from a year and a half tracking the censorship and surveillance keyword lists of two instant messaging (IM) programs used in China. I thought…