Cybersecurity
25 Words Too Dirty for the Web in China
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George Carlin had seven dirty words you couldn’t say on American TV in the 1970s. Chinese Internet chief Lu Wei has at least 25 he wants to purge from the country’s cyberspace.
From the Mandarin-equivalent of the F-bomb to the more innocuous-sounding “your Mom,” Lu’s agency, the Cyberspace Administration of China, highlighted the words Tuesday as the most popular examples of “coarse language” saturating the country’s Internet. The agency used a symposium attended by representatives from Tencent Holdings Ltd., Sina Corp. and other Chinese Internet companies to press for cleaner language online.