Not very surprising will you tell me. But Zuola (an apparently famous chinese blogger) managed to get his hands on the list. Some words are very surprising. Apparently, in China, you can't cay CDMA in your message. Welp. China as usual.
[release]Recently uploaded onto the twitterverse were two word documents (this one and this one) purporting to be a list of SMS words banned by China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom. The three telecommunications companies had announced their plans to monitor text messages for "bad content" this time last year, but the implications of that went unnoticed for most of 2010.
So it's interesting to see an actual listing of what may be the words on the SMS "black list." I say may be because there's some doubt to whether these words are actually anything close to an official black list, or if they were just compiled by netizens gleefully supposing what the relevant bureaus would want to censor. For one, the word "fuck" appears more than once on the list - does that mean you have to write "fuck" twice before the censors step in... or was it just an oopsie of bad editing?
Also, some of the words are almost too ridiculous to possibly be on any list. I understand wanting to block out 牛B for being a swear word and the many iterations of FLG (there are at least 20 on the list), but 日本 (Japan)? CDMA? China Telecom's full name in Chinese? Even the GFW isn't that specific: it can't be. Nothing would be able to get texted ever.
To test the list out, I tried texting various friends with two text messages comprised of banned terms - "Bignews playboy fuck peacehall simple sex" and "温家宝 法论 红灯区 胡锦涛." Both went through and were sent back as confirmation.
But perhaps I just don't understand the algorithm surrounding the actual blacklisting of words from this text list. After all, the original report on the SMS banned words list said there would be 13 criteria relating to whether a message was "unhealthy." Those 13 criteria were never revealed. Maybe it has to be in an actual sentence? Maybe they only blacklist you when you've texted the words multiple times?
Anyone who's willing to risk getting their phone shut off ought to experiment - it'd be good to know what exactly you can get away with.[/release]
source: [url]http://shanghaiist.com/2011/01/04/an_alleged_list_of_banned_sms_terms.php[/url]
Way to go China.
Lol censoring txt msgs, u cn't do th@ china XD.
No need for Chinese to panic yet, that list is rather unreliable, as it states clearly in the article.
[quote]To test the list out, I tried texting various friends with two text messages comprised of banned terms - "Bignews playboy fuck peacehall simple sex" and "温家宝 法论 红灯区 胡锦涛." Both went through and were sent back as confirmation.[/quote]
I wonder if "human rights" is on that list
[QUOTE=Tools;27243206]I wonder if "human rights" is on that list[/QUOTE]
It's in.
Coming from a french site:
[quote]700 mots censurés concernant la sécurité nationale et la politique. « Révolution culturelle », « département de la propagande », « Indépendance du Turkestan oriental », « sécurité nationale », « anti-corruption » et des choses beaucoup plus basiques comme « violence », « émeute », « 4 juin » (date anniversaire du massacre de la place Tian’anmen), « gens », « droits de l’homme », « démocratie » ou encore « CCP » (parti communiste chinois) sont totalement bannis des SMS.
200 mots concernant le Falun Gong, un mouvement spirituel chinois interdit par le parti communiste Chinois.
200 mots concernant les informations en général comme « dire la vérité », « pétition », « Asia Magazine », « suicide », « opinion publique » ou encore « SCMP », la chaine d’information Hong Kongaise.
600 mots déclarés comme vulgaires… Je vous les laisse en anglais, c’est plus rigolo… « fuck », « gambling » (jeu de hasard), « sex », « pornography », « naked », « dick », « breast », « fart », « loser », « dog shit », « slut », « illegal », « bomb », « adult movie », « heroin », « prostitute », « lonely », « apartment », « fake money », « oral sex », « waiting for you ».[/quote]
Which translates to :
cultural revolution, propaganda department, oriental Turkestan independance, national security, viloence, riots, 4th of july (Tian'anmen), people, human rights, democracy, CCP(Communisht Chinese Party)
200 words from the Falun Gong, a spiritual movement
[QUOTE=Tools;27243206]I wonder if "human rights" is on that list[/QUOTE]
Text messaging isn't a human right if that is what you are implying.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;27243200]No need for Chinese to panic yet, that list is rather unreliable, as it states clearly in the article.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I'm also thinking it's unreliable. I mean what the fuck, why is 4-Jun and freedom banned? Sounds really unreasonable...
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;27243226]Text messaging isn't a human right if that is what you are implying.[/QUOTE]
China, human rights.
~~The joke~~
You.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;27243248]Yeah I'm also thinking it's unreliable. I mean what the fuck, why is 4-Jun and freedom banned? Sounds really unreasonable...[/QUOTE]
4th of June:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989[/url]
relates to the Tian'anmen Square massacre.
[QUOTE=PiXeN;27243337]4th of June:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989[/url]
relates to the Tian'anmen Square massacre.[/QUOTE]
Ah yes I forgot. I thought it was the American "Independence Day", but that's 4th July :v:
Anyhow, if these words are allowed on the internet, then surely they would be allowed on the mobile network wouldn't they?
[img]http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/121713/original.jpg[/img]
[editline]6th January 2011[/editline]
totally not censored
[QUOTE=Swebonny;27243407]Ah yes I forgot. I thought it was the American "Independence Day", but that's 4th July :v:
Anyhow, if these words are allowed on the internet, then surely they would be allowed on the mobile network wouldn't they?[/QUOTE]
At a guess I'd say it's not that the words aren't allowed but that the use of them increases your likelihood of being wiretapped.
Jesus. That's like 5000 words, now conversations are just going to be:
Chinese military honours respectable chairman.
Yes. Understood. Great Wall.
I love 日本! Chew on that China!
Really... Banning 4th of june, an event which took place 22 years ago. China is crossing the line in this whole censorship thing.
Ban peacehall!!
What about freedom.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;27243179]Lol censoring txt msgs, u cn't do th@ china XD.[/QUOTE]
Regex.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;27243226]Text messaging isn't a human right if that is what you are implying.[/QUOTE]
It isn't a human right to express your opinion without being send to jail?
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;27243226]Text messaging isn't a human right if that is what you are implying.[/QUOTE]
No, but freedom of expression is.
[QUOTE=|FlapJack|;27248357]Regex.[/QUOTE]
regex enables computers to [b]actually understand the written word[/b]??? why isn't this big news?????
I'm actually surprised they banned websites such as somethingawful.com and whitehouse.com. SA is a small forum which has a little bit more active members than FP, and they ban whitehouse.com but they don't ban any wikileaks mirrors or even google.com (they only ban google.cn)
[QUOTE=Catdaemon;27253466]regex enables computers to [b]actually understand the written word[/b]??? why isn't this big news?????[/QUOTE]
They'd use regex to determine the likelyhood something being a blocked word.
[QUOTE=M24;27246591]Really... Banning 4th of june, an event which took place 22 years ago. China is crossing the line in this whole censorship thing.[/QUOTE]
Censorship is crossing the line in the first place.
[QUOTE=M24;27246591]Really... Banning 4th of june, an event which took place 22 years ago. China is crossing the line in this whole censorship thing.[/QUOTE]
You mean the event that a lot of Chinese people don't know happened because of extensive censorship?
They're just keeping up the facade.
Can you caesar-shift chinese characters?
"triangle"
Really? :raise:
[editline]8th January 2011[/editline]
triangleboy
:wtc:
[editline]8th January 2011[/editline]
unixbox
[editline]8th January 2011[/editline]
bitch :v:
[editline]8th January 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=|FlapJack|;27259423]They'd use regex to determine the likelyhood something being a blocked word.[/QUOTE]
You don't have any idea what regex is, do you?
[QUOTE=cheater99;27261203]Can you caesar-shift chinese characters?[/QUOTE]
Except I'd imagine most chinese people use the chinese alphabet, and you can't really caesar shift that unless they've all memorized some indexing system or memorized unicode.
[QUOTE=|FlapJack|;27248357]Regex.[/QUOTE]
What I know about Regex is that it's really strict. There's no way it can tell that "that" and "th@" are the same.
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