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Chinese censors scrubbing the internet of anything that could be used to reference the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in the run-up to Sunday’s anniversary (web.archive.org)

submitted 1 year ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/news@beehaw.org

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Amid the usual scrubbing, searches for the Siton bridge near Beijing’s university district where protest was held in 2022 also return no results around this year's anniversary on June 4. Last October, white banners with large red characters criticising the Chinese Communist party were hung over the bridge in advance of a major CCP congress.

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[–] Tammanytiger@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Citizen, don't you know nothing ever happened on that day?

[–] 0x815@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it."