{"id":5528,"date":"2014-10-11T20:17:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T20:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5528"},"modified":"2014-10-11T20:17:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T20:17:11","slug":"sensitive-words-hong-kong-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5528","title":{"rendered":"Sensitive Words: Hong Kong Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday I heard a great talk by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalscience.ualberta.ca\/en\/People\/Instructors\/AshleyEsarey.aspx\">Ashley Esarey<\/a> on &#8220;Understanding Chinese Information Control and State Preferences for Stability Maintenance.&#8221; He has been studying a dataset of over 4,000 censorship directives issued by the Chinese state to website administrators to do things like stop mentioning Obama&#8217;s inauguration in headlines or to delete all references to certain issues. I hadn&#8217;t realized how hierarchical and human the Chinese control of the internet was. Directives came from all levels and seem to also have been ignored.<\/p>\n<p>In his talk Esarey mentioned how the China Digital Times has been tracking various internet censorship issues in China. At that site I found some fascinating stories and lists of words censored. See:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/09\/sensitive-words-hong-kong-protests\/\">Sensitive Words: Hong Kong Protests Updated<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2004\/08\/the-words-you-never-see-in-chinese-cyberspace\/\">A List of Censored Words in Chinese Cyberspace<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday I heard a great talk by Ashley Esarey on &#8220;Understanding Chinese Information Control and State Preferences for Stability Maintenance.&#8221; He has been studying a dataset of over 4,000 censorship directives issued by the Chinese state to website administrators to do things like stop mentioning Obama&#8217;s inauguration in headlines or to delete all references &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5528\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sensitive Words: Hong Kong Protests<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-ethics-of-data-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5530,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions\/5530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}