{"id":27847,"date":"2012-06-04T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=27847 "},"modified":"2012-06-04T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T14:08:00","slug":"27847-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=27847","title":{"rendered":"China Blocks Online Discussion of Tiananmen Square-related Topics"},"content":{"rendered":"
Terms such as “six four”, “23”, “candle” and “never forget”, typed in Chinese search engines, do not return any information about the event.<\/span><\/div>
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Discussions of the unrest of 4 June 1989 remain taboo in the country.<\/span><\/div>
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But some users managed to upload a few pictures on to Twitter-like Sina Weibo.<\/span><\/div>
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In 1989, troops shot dead hundreds of pro-democracy protesters gathered in central Beijing.<\/span><\/div>
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The demonstrations have never been publicly marked in China, and the government has never said how many were killed.<\/span><\/div>
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But human rights groups’ estimates range from several hundred to several thousand killed.<\/span><\/div>
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Analysts say that censoring any online talk related to the event is especially important for Beijing this year, as the government gets ready for a leadership handover.<\/span><\/div>
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“Today’s anniversary is one of those ‘red line’ topics that are always subject to a high degree of scrutiny,” Duncan Clark of BDA China told the BBC.<\/span><\/div>
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“Typical search results for Chinese search engines of Tiananmen Square return bland descriptions of the square, photos of tourists or the main landmarks, and so on.<\/span><\/div>
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“And some are tweeting that the characters for ‘today’ are today banned.”<\/span><\/div>
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China’s main microblogging platform, Sina Weibo, has deactivated the candle emoticon, commonly adopted on the web to mourn deaths.<\/span><\/div>
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After users responded by trying to replace the banned candle emoticon with the Olympic flame symbol, the website deactivated it too.<\/span><\/div>
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When trying to search for the unrest, users have been coming across a message explaining that search results could not be displayed “due to relevant laws, regulations and policies”.<\/span><\/div>
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Throughout the years, the government’s methods have been very effective in making people avoid any discussions of the crackdown, added Mr Clark.<\/span><\/div>
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“For most Chinese the words ‘Tiananmen Square’ don’t bring to mind the same images and associations as in the West, it’s more like Trafalgar Square to Brits.<\/span><\/div>
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