TECHNIQUES
keyword-filtering Keyword filtering
Censor blocks or modifies traffic based on appearance of specific keywords (URLs, social-media posts, search queries). Common in CN platform-side moderation.
42 PAPERS ON FILE
- 2025-ahmed-llm-censorship-bias An Analysis of Chinese Censorship Bias in LLMs
- 2024-hoang-gfweb GFWeb: Measuring the Great Firewall's Web Censorship at Scale
- 2024-zhang-toothless How Do Toothless Tigers Bite? Extra-institutional Governance and Internet Censorship by Local Governments in China
- 2023-feng-study A Study of China's Censorship and Its Evasion Through the Lens of Online Gaming
- 2023-nourin-measuring Measuring and Evading Turkmenistan's Internet Censorship
- 2023-streisand-where Where Have All the Paragraphs Gone? Detecting and Exposing Censorship in Chinese Translation
- 2022-chang-covid-19 COVID-19 increased censorship circumvention and access to sensitive topics in China
- 2022-harrity-get GET /out: Automated Discovery of Application-Layer Censorship Evasion Strategies
- 2022-waheed-darwin-s Darwin's Theory of Censorship: Analysing the Evolution of Censored Topics with Dynamic Topic Models
- 2021-knockel-measuring Measuring QQMail's Automated Email Censorship in China
- 2021-rambert-chinese Chinese Wall or Swiss Cheese? Keyword filtering in the Great Firewall of China
- 2021-sharma-camoufler Camoufler: Accessing The Censored Web By Utilizing Instant Messaging Channels
- 2020-alharbi-opening Opening Digital Borders Cautiously yet Decisively: Digital Filtering in Saudi Arabia
- 2019-chen-impact The Impact of Media Censorship: 1984 or Brave New World?
- 2019-ververis-shedding Shedding Light on Mobile App Store Censorship
- 2019-xiong-efficient An Efficient Method to Determine which Combination of Keywords Triggered Automatic Filtering of a Message
- 2018-knockel-analysis An analysis of automatic image filtering on WeChat Moments
- 2018-ng-detecting Detecting Censorable Content on Sina Weibo: A Pilot Study
- 2017-darer-filteredweb FilteredWeb: A Framework for the Automated Search-Based Discovery of Blocked URLs
- 2017-knockel-measuring Measuring Decentralization of Chinese Keyword Censorship via Mobile Games
- 2016-aceto-analyzing Analyzing Internet Censorship in Pakistan
- 2015-gill-characterizing Characterizing Web Censorship Worldwide: Another Look at the OpenNet Initiative Data
- 2015-hiruncharoenvate-algorithmically Algorithmically Bypassing Censorship on Sina Weibo with Nondeterministic Homophone Substitutions
- 2015-knockel-every Every Rose Has Its Thorn: Censorship and Surveillance on Social Video Platforms in China
- 2014-chaabane-censorship Censorship in the Wild: Analyzing Internet Filtering in Syria
- 2014-khattak-look A Look at the Consequences of Internet Censorship Through an ISP Lens
- 2014-king-reverse-engineering Reverse-engineering censorship in China: Randomized experimentation and participant observation
- 2014-morrison-toward Toward automatic censorship detection in microblogs
- 2013-chen-tweeting Tweeting Under Pressure: Analyzing Trending Topics and Evolving Word Choice on Sina Weibo
- 2013-dalek-method A Method for Identifying and Confirming the Use of URL Filtering Products for Censorship
- 2013-das-self-censorship Self-Censorship on Facebook
- 2013-invernizzi-message Message In A Bottle: Sailing Past Censorship
- 2013-nabi-anatomy The Anatomy of Web Censorship in Pakistan
- 2013-verkamp-five Five Incidents, One Theme: Twitter Spam as a Weapon to Drown Voices of Protest
- 2013-zhu-velocity The Velocity of Censorship: High-Fidelity Detection of Microblog Post Deletions
- 2012-king-censorship How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression
- 2012-thomas-adapting Adapting Social Spam Infrastructure for Political Censorship
- 2012-vasserman-one-way One-way indexing for plausible deniability in censorship resistant storage
- 2012-wright-regional Regional Variation in Chinese Internet Filtering
- 2011-knockel-three Three Researchers, Five Conjectures: An Empirical Analysis of TOM-Skype Censorship and Surveillance
- 2011-shklovski-online Online Contribution Practices in Countries that Engage in Internet Blocking and Censorship
- 2010-burnett-chipping Chipping Away at Censorship Firewalls with User-Generated Content