ABSTRACT
In this chapter we explore how practices of security governmentality are enacted in everyday censorship of online discourse in China. We do this by showing how internet censorship can be approached as a form of controlling the flow of ‘good’, ‘bad’, and ‘dangerous’ words and images. Together with propaganda, censorship, even on the level of words, is part of how political discourse is controlled in China. We illustrate this with two case studies that display what we call overt and covert meta-level censorship on China’s largest microblog service Sina Weibo and her largest search engine https://Baidu.com">Baidu.com respectively.
