Hi, The idea is so interesting and I like it.
Thanks to share it. A On 13 October 2012 06:53, Martin Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > As you know, Twitter, Facebook, Google+ etc are all blocked in China. > Hundreds of millions of Chinese netizens use local microblogs, but these > are all subject to strict self-censorship rules. The biggest one is Sina > Weibo. We've identified more than 2000 keywords that users are not allowed > to search for (https://en.greatfire.org/search/weibo-searches). But what > if you could indeed search for these? What would you find? > > We've just created an uncensored version of Weibo Search: > https://freeweibo.com. We mix the latest results (for keywords that > aren't blocked) with cached results coming from the WeiboScope project as > well as our own database. All in all, you can now find results for most > keywords that you can't search for on Sina Weibo's official search. > > We put the website up on Thursday this week. Yesterday, TechInAsia wrote > about our service ( > http://www.techinasia.com/free-weibo-totally-uncensored-sina-weibo-search/) > as well as Solidot ( > http://internet.solidot.org/article.pl?sid=12/10/12/0511228). We got > 1000+ visits in the first full day of existence, most of them from > China. It's probably just a question of time before the site is blocked > here, but we can always put up mirror sites. > > Your comments and ideas are much appreciated. > > https://freeweibo.com > > -- > Best > Martin Johnson > --- > https://greatfire.org - Bringing Transparency To The Great Firewall Of > China. > @GreatFireChina (Twitter) > https://plus.google.com/105751215620515077786 > > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >
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