On: Chinese government dropping phone calls if forbidden words are said

[zkoch]

I live in China, so I did a quick test with my coworkers. 4 people. Two phone calls each. Each conversation we dropped the word 'protest' in both English and Chinese. No magical dropped calls for us.

[dublinclontarf → zkoch]

Chinas telecom and internet monitoring and blocking is regional, what may be blocked in one region may be available in another, although there is certainly some centralisation of this system.

The goverenment is certainly experimenting with such a system in one or two regions, along with their pervasive cameras and face recognition.

However, seeing as the government here seems to have some difficulty building a road on time, on budget, that is actually decent quality it seems unlikely that they'll get this working.

[mcherm → zkoch]

Thank you. Actual data... it's a powerful thing.

[mentat → mcherm]

Yes, a sample size of two is certainly significant... If you want data it's going to take more than that.

[dexen → zkoch]

Any chances you aren't in some particular region? Or you aren't on a list of watched individuals?

[mentat → zkoch]

Did you only use it once, or twice, as the article specifies? (Ideally within a relatively short amount of time.)

[geoffw8 → zkoch]

Have any of your colleagues since, err, disappeared?