ReverseEngineeringChineseCensorshipGaryKing1InstituteforQuantitativeSocialScienceHarvardUniversity(Keynoteaddress,FirstAnnualAsianPoliticalMethodologyMeeting,Tokyo,1/6/2014)1BasedonjointworkwithJenniferPanandMollyRoberts1/29PapersAnObservationalStudy:HowCensorshipinChinaAllowsGovernmentCriticismbutSilencesCollectiveExpression(AmericanPoliticalScienceReview,May2013)ExperimentalandParticipatoryStudies:ARandomizedExperimentalStudyofCensorshipinChinaCopiesatGaryKing.org2/29ChineseCensorshipThelargestselectivesuppressionofhumanexpressioninhistory:implementedmanually,by200;000workers,locatedingovernmentandinsidesocialmediarmsTheoriesoftheGoalofCensorship1StopcollectiveactionRightEitherorbothcouldberightorwrong.(Theyalsocensor2othersmallercategorieswe'lltalkabout)Benet?HugeCostHugeNone3/29ChineseCensorshipThelargestselectivesuppressionofhumanexpressioninhistory:implementedmanually,by200;000workers,locatedingovernmentandinsidesocialmediarmsTheoriesoftheGoalofCensorship1StopcollectiveactionRightEitherorbothcouldberightorwrong.(Theyalsocensor2othersmallercategorieswe'lltalkabout)Benet?HugeCostHugeNone3/29ChineseCensorshipThelargestselectivesuppressionofhumanexpressioninhistory:implementedmanually,by200;000workers,locatedingovernmentandinsidesocialmediarmsTheoriesoftheGoalofCensorship1StopcollectiveactionRightEitherorbothcouldberightorwrong.(Theyalsocensor2othersmallercategorieswe'lltalkabout)Benet?HugeCostHugeNone3/29ChineseCensorshipThelargestselectivesuppressionofhumanexpressioninhistory:implementedmanually,by200;000workers,locatedingovernmentandinsidesocialmediarmsTheoriesoftheGoalofCensorship1Stopcriticismofthestate2StopcollectiveactionRightEitherorbothcouldberightorwrong.(Theyalsocensor2othersmallercategorieswe'lltalkabout)Benet?HugeCostHugeNone3/29ChineseCensorshipThelargestselectivesuppressionofhumanexpressioninhistory:implementedmanually,by200;000workers,locatedingovernmentandinsidesocialmediarmsTheoriesoftheGoalofCensorship1Stopcriticismofthestate2StopcollectiveactionRightEitherorbothcouldberightorwrong.(Theyalsocensor2othersmallercategorieswe'lltalkabout)Benet?HugeCostHugeNone3/29ChineseCensorshipThelargestselectivesuppressionofhumanexpressioninhistory:implementedmanually,by200;000workers,locatedingovernmentandinsidesocialmediarmsTheoriesoftheGoalofCensorship1Stopcriticismofthestate2StopcollectiveactionRightEitherorbothcouldberightorwrong.(Theyalsocensor2othersmallercategorieswe'lltalkabout)Benet?HugeCostHugeNone3/29ChineseCensorshipThelargestselectivesuppressionofhumanexpressioninhistory:implementedmanually,by200;000workers,locatedingovernmentandinsidesocialmediarmsTheoriesoftheGoalofCensorship1StopcriticismofthestateWrong2StopcollectiveactionRightEitherorbothcouldberightorwrong.(Theyalsocensor2othersmallercategorieswe'lltalkabout)Benet?HugeCostHugeNone3/29ChineseCensorshipThelargestselectivesuppressionofhumanexpressioninhistory:implementedmanually,by200;000workers,locatedingovernmentandinsidesocialmediarmsTheoriesoftheGoalofCensorship1StopcriticismofthestateWrong2StopcollectiveactionRightEitherorbothcouldberightorwrong.(Theyalsocensor2othersmallercategorieswe'lltalkabout)Benet?HugeCostHugeNone3/29ChineseCensorshipThelargestselectivesuppressionofhumanexpressioninhistory:implementedmanually,by200;000workers,locatedingovernmentandinsidesocialmediarmsTheoriesoftheGoalofCensorship1StopcriticismofthestateWrong2StopcollectiveactionRightEitherorbothcouldberightorwrong.(Theyalsocensor2othersmallercategorieswe'lltalkabout)Benet?HugeCostHugeNone3/29ChineseCensorshipThelargestselectivesuppressionofhumanexpressioninhistory:implementedmanually,by200;000workers,locatedingovernmentandinsidesocialmediarmsTheoriesoftheGoalofCensorship1StopcriticismofthestateWrong2StopcollectiveactionRightEitherorbothcouldberightorwrong.(Theyalsocensor2othersmallercategorieswe'lltalkabout)Benet?HugeCostHugeNone3/29ChineseCensorshipThelargestselectivesuppressionofhumanexpressioninhistory:implementedmanually,by200;000workers,locatedingovernmentandinsidesocialmediarmsTheoriesoftheGoalofCensorship1StopcriticismofthestateWrong2StopcollectiveactionRightEitherorbothcouldberightorwrong.(Theyalsocensor2othersmallercategorieswe'lltalkabout)Benet?HugeCostHugeNone3/29ChineseCensorshipThelargestselectivesuppressionofhumanexpressioninhistory:implementedmanually,by200;000workers,locatedingovernmentandinsidesocialmediarmsTheoriesoftheGoalofCensorship1StopcriticismofthestateWrong2StopcollectiveactionRightEitherorbothcouldberightorwrong.(Theyalsocensor2othersmallercategorieswe'lltalkabout)Benet?HugeCostHugeNone3/29ChineseCensorshipThelargestselectivesuppressionofhumanexpressioninhistory:implementedmanually,by200;000workers,locatedingovernmentandinsidesocialmediarmsTheoriesoftheGoalofCensorship1StopcriticismofthestateWrong2StopcollectiveactionRightEitherorbothcouldberightorwrong.(Theyalsocensor2othersmallercategorieswe'lltalkabout)Benet?HugeCostHugeNone3/29ChineseCensorshipThelargestselectivesuppressionofhumanexpressioni