Can an
Android App
Defeat China's Internet Censors?
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China has long had one of the most pervasive online censorship systems in the world
The country's infamous
"Great Firewall" blocks access to numerous Western websites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and
The New York Times. But China also has laws that force Chinese companies and social networks to apply censorship within their own services
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On
Sina Weibo,
China's Twitter-like service that boasts almost 300 million users, hundreds of posts get censored every day. The social network has a sophisticated system that automatically censors certain keywords ("June 4 massacre," referring to the Tiananmen Square protests, is blocked), and a team of in-house censors manually monitors other accounts and messages to catch whatever escapes the automated system
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