4/4: Asia Pacific Forum radio show with Rebecca MacKinnon and interview in The Next Web ■ 3/13: List of 343 words blocked on Weibo as of March 13 ■ 3/12/12: Article explaining my project in more detail: How China Gets the Internet to Censor Itself ■ 3/11/12: Words posted before February may no longer be blocked (they were blocked at the time of their posting). If you find any errors, contact me and I'd be happy to correct. ■ 2/24/12: Coded and categorized: analyzing a sample of 219 blocked Weibo words
咪咪 (mimi) is 1) an oboe-like instrument featured in the folk music in regions like Gansu and Qinghai; 2) an onomatopoeia for a cat mewing; 3) a nickname for a cat; 4) a Western name (e.g. Mimi from La bohème); 5) slang for breasts (roughly equivalent to tits in English).
Why it is blocked: File under sex, pornography, and spiritual pollution.
