Blocked words in china

• Iodized salt
• Tibet
• Ai Weiwei
• Yilishen
• Shanwei
• Beijing spring

Iodized salt. This is banned to try to stop the roumors that were spread that said that this salt can prevent radiation poisoning. This roumor started after the flood that caused radiation to spread.

Tibet and Ai Weiwei. These are two words that are flagged when people write them on public sites. They are frowned upon by the Chinese government. Entire messages and whole posts that contained these words or other key words are sensors and even deletes entirely. All of this just because they don't like th Chinese government and hope for change.

There are generally two kinds of internet censorship in china they either completely block a website from users or they instruct local search engines to modify search results for certain keywords.

There are some words that one would never suspect as a censored or banned word.

Yilishen is one. This is a company that convinces millions of Chinese people that one could buy ants, bread them, and then sell them for a profit. And now because of that if you type that word your activity on the internet will be watched.

Shanwei is one similar to the previous one. It is a town in china where a lot of protest against the government occurred and is therefor a word that is not good to be used

Another weird one is Beijing spring. This is a censored because there was a brief period of political liberalization in 1977. During this time the public was allowed to criticize the regime and it lasted a year. Just because the government was weak for a little bit of time they ban the words that made them look bad.