Nart@CitizenLab of the University of Toronto has the first detailed investigation into the filtering of the Tom-Skype VoIP/chat client in China. As you may well know, Skype has partnered with Tom.com to distributed a cobranded version that supposedly filters the text chat for sensitive words.
From Nart’s first tests, it seems a very short list of words are filtered, and only “f*ck” has been able to trigger the filtering. Other famous censored terms/words/subjects in Chinese seem not be be affected. Another case of intentionally lame filtering simply to appease the authorities, or something else going on?
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