It's a mixture of spam filtering ("... for sale", gambling, drugs/weapons) and swearwords, that you'd expect to find in western apps as well. But there are also a lot of phrases about the CCP, dissidents and Tibet/Taiwan.
https://github.com/jonathandata1/2022_beijing/blob/main/ille...
> China has no freedom of speech
whoever wrote that into "illegalwords.zh-CN.en.txt" must have been aware of the irony...
As a result, while the publicised list included things that the CPC may seek to censor, the full list showed that it was mostly porn filtering and similar and included blocks for advertisements from the CPCs main newspaper (people's daily). Briefly looking through the illegal words list, it looks very much the same and also includes a wide range of Chinese government entities and so its likely not censorship functionality in the way you'd expect but more likely things the company would prefer not to advertise to users.
I've asked the original poster for more information, specifically for which classes contain the functionality he suspects but have gotten no response-- my suspicion is that he just read the strings of the program and made some assumptions, e.g. "monitor thread" probably doesn't mean what he thinks it does but I can't discern because I can't get a clear statement about what he thinks just screenshots with red arrows and him pointing to a decompiled application telling me to read it without referencing what exactly inside contains the suspect functionality.
No idea about the second one - but every single major mainland Chinese politician and ministry is on the list too, so it is probably just yet another political topic they want to monitor/suppress...
Looking through this list, I'm fairly certain that this is something like that because it also includes a bunch of Chinese government entity names that clearly would not be censored in China and also includes a lot of terms relating to pornography.
So the round about point is "88 event" likely refers to a specific string in an advertisment that was once loaded by an affiliate and found to be undesirable for one reason or another and not any sort of specifically political event or similar.
Looking through this list, I'm fairly certain that this is something like that because it also includes a bunch of Chinese government entity names that clearly would not be censored in China and also includes a lot of terms relating to pornography.
Some on the list