censorship - Banned words revealed

The China Digital News has a nice scope: it has found the list of banned words on the Chinese internet. You can find the list here, but only if you're outside China, why would they otherwise be banned? All these words put quite a strain on the filters in the networks of services providers, so Tencent's QQ has done something to save bandwidth: they put the list on your own computer.
Danwei gives an overview of the 'damage'. "About 15% of the words relate to sex, but most are political," it says.
When you want to have a look yourself, you should break open the COMToolKit.dll file of QQ, of course after carefully copying it, otherwise it might impair your chatting abilities.
It seems that also localized services like yahoo messenger use similar restriction. I discovered that I could not change the language settings of the Chinese version of yahoo messenger and also the sometimes revealing profiles could not be accessed. I have uninstalled the Chinese edition and work now with the British one: no problems anymore.