Posted on 06/02/2023 9:20:46 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Amid usual scrubbing for Tiananmen Square anniversary, searches for bridge where protest was held in 2022 return no results
Chinese censors scrubbing the internet of any words or symbols that could be used to reference the Tiananmen Square massacre in the run-up to Sunday’s anniversary have a new target in their sights: a bridge in Beijing where a rare protest was staged last year.
It is still possible to search for the bridge using the traditional Chinese characters used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, rather than the simplified characters used on the mainland. And it is still possible to find related locations, such as “Sitong Bridge East” – a nearby bus stop – on Baidu.
October’s Sitong Bridge banners called for “freedom”, “respect” and the right to be “citizens, not slaves”, as well as the removal of Xi Jinping, China’s leader, who was about to begin an unprecedented third term as the CCP’s general secretary. The man responsible for the banners, Peng Lifa, was detained by police shortly after they appeared and has not been seen since.
He has become known as Bridge Man, a reference to the Tank Man of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. As the 34th anniversary of the 1989 massacre approaches, anyone searching in Chinese for Sitong Bridge on Baidu maps will draw a blank.
On 13 October 2022 white banners with large red characters criticising the Chinese Communist party (CCP) were hung over the bridge near Beijing’s university district in advance of a major CCP congress.
According to pictures posted on social media, the road sign for Sitong Bridge has been removed. Searches on Baidu for Sitong Bridge return the message: “No related places were found.”
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I got 86,900 results from a Guurgle search.
The Guardian - as if those leftist hacks are any better
Google filters results in China but not as much in the U.S., all to make you think there’s no information firewall in China.
Strangely enough despite my efforts to get google dot com all I could get was google dot cn ("cn" being the country code for China).
On google dot cn all I could get for "Tienanmen Square" were idyllic photos of smiling people...with Mao looking down on them lovingly. Not a drop of blood to be seen.
HW Bush couldn’t wait to help put Tienanmen Square down the memory hole for his China friends.
That’s what Clinton said.
Then Clinton did the same thing.
Sadly, we’ve never had a president stand up to China.
Make sure you remove all the Confederate statues also.
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