Why not ask the Chinese government for the blacklist and the locations of the filtering routers?
We doubt that the Chinese government would make this information public. We base this on several events that have been published in the media. The first was the release of the QQChat keyword blacklist, where the hackers responsible for extracting this list from the QQChat software chose to remain anonymous. Given the media attention this release received, if the HTTP list were easy to obtain we believe that the media would have done so already. By comparing our first keyword list produced by ConceptDoppler to this list it is apparent that the HTTP list is different or has changed a great deal, for example Hitler and Mein Kampf were not on the 2005 QQChat list. Also, dissident’s names and other keywords may be added to the list and removed based on current events, making it necessary to track the list over time. Finally, it appears that many companies that are complicit in keyword censorship are unwilling to release the keywords, for example “[No] Skype executive, however, has clarified
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