Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Search Engine and Social Media Censorship of Wang Qishan

Wang Qishan (王岐山) currently serves on China's Politburo Standing Committee.

These screenshots show that on May 28, 2015 Sina Weibo began censoring search results for "Wang Qishan Morgan" (王岐山 摩根).


These screenshots show that on the morning of February 1, 2013, Baidu was restricting search results for "Wang Qishan Luxury Homes" (王岐山 豪宅) to its broad white list, which comprises dozens of large China-based news web sites and web portals such as Sohu, Hexun, Phoenix, and Sina. By that afternoon, Baidu was restricting search results for the same query to its strict white list, which comprises only about one dozens web sites controlled by the central government and the Communist Party such as Xinhua and the People's Daily. The screenshot on the far right shows that when users asked Baidu to restrict the query results to Sohu, Hexun, Phoenix, or Sina, Baidu displayed no results, just a censorship notice.
These screenshots, taken on February 2,  2013 show that a search for "Yao Mingshan" (姚明珊 - Wang Qishan's wife) on Sogou returned apparently uncensored results, while a search for "Yao Mingshan Luxury Homes" returned no results, only a censorship notice.

These screenshots, also taken on February 2, 2013 show that searches for "Yao Mingshan" on Baidu and Yahoo.cn returned apparently uncensored results, while a search for "Yao Mingshan Luxury Home Villas" (姚明珊 豪宅别墅) returned no results, only a censorship notice.


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