Monday, July 29, 2013

Most Major Chinese Web Sites Completely Censor Search Results for "Huang Huahua Reported"

Huang Huahua (黄华华) was governor of Guangdong province from 2003 - 2011.

These screenshots show that, while a Baidu search for "Huang Huahua" in late July, 2013 returned apparently uncensored results, a search for "Huang Huahua reported" (黄华华 举报) returned no results, just a censorship notice.

Similarly, Baidu was also completely censoring search results for "Huang Huahua High Level Corruption" (黄华华 高层贪腐).

These screenshots show that all of China's major search engines also returned no results for "Huang Huahua reported" (黄华华 举报), just a censorship notice.
These screenshots show that Baidu had banned users from establishing PostBar (贴吧) forums on Huang Huahua, and a search for "Huang Huahua reported" (黄华华 举报) on Sina Weibo returned no results, just a censorship notice.

This screenshot shows Yahoo.com search results for "Huang Huahua reported" (黄华华 举报).

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