As part of our ongoing project monitoring changes to Chinese search censorship, we tracked changes to censorship following Li Keqiang’s death across seven Internet platforms: Baidu, Baidu Zhidao, Bilibili, Microsoft Bing, Jingdong, Sogou, and Weibo. We found that some keyword combinations in search queries triggers hard censorship whereas others trigger soft censorship. Our results demonstrate China’s ongoing efforts to push state-sanctioned narratives concerning politically sensitive topics, impacting the integrity of the online information environment.

В данном отчете рассматривается доступность некоторых видов контента в ВК для пользователей из Канады, Украины и России.

We discovered over 60,000 unique censorship rules used to partially or totally censor search results across eight China-accessible search platforms analyzed. These findings call into question the ability of non-Chinese technology companies to better resist censorship demands than their Chinese counterparts.

本報告研究微軟必應自動建議功能（autosuggestion）針對人名的審查。我們發現，除了審查與色情相關的人名，第二大被微軟必應審查的人名類別是與中國領導人，異議人士相關以及其他在中國被認為是政治敏感的人名。