Date of 4 June remains one of China’s strictest taboos, with government using increasingly sophisticated tools to censor its discussion

Date of 4 June remains one of China’s strictest taboos, with government using increasingly sophisticated tools to censor its discussion

There is no official death toll but activists believe hundreds, possibly thousands, were killed by China’s People’s Liberation Army in the streets around Tiananmen Square, Beijing’s central plaza, on 4 June 1989.

The date of 4 June remains one of China’s strictest taboos, and the Chinese government employs extensive and increasingly sophisticated resources to censor any discussion or acknowledgment of it inside China. Internet censors scrub even the most obscure references to the date from online spaces, and activists in China are often put under increased surveillance or sent on enforced “holidays” away from Beijing.

New research from human rights workers has found that the sensitive date also sees heightened transnational repression of Chinese government critics overseas by the government and its proxies.

  • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    That video is really low res. Do you have any sources that prove that the moving object is a tank and that the people are students?

    But honestly it doesn’t really matter because running over people because they are protesting a dictatorship is fucking gruesome.

    • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre

      Demonstrators attacked troops with poles, rocks, and molotov cocktails; Jeff Widener reported witnessing rioters setting fire to military vehicles and beating the soldiers inside them to death.[178] On one avenue in western Beijing, anti-government protestors torched a military convoy of more than 100 trucks and armored vehicles.[179] They also hijacked an armored personnel carrier, taking it on a joy ride. These scenes were captured on camera and broadcast by Chinese state television.[180]

      Good old peaceful demonstration strikes again. Luckily those students were not doing anything violent such as holding up a Palestine flag. Then the US media would tell us how violence against them is fully justified

      • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Has anyone claimed that the protests were entirely peaceful? Of course some turn violent when you roll in with your army and riot police gun blazing.

        And thanks for confirming that it wasn’t a tank.

        There really are no excuses for the killing of dozens if not hundreds of civilians and protestors.

        And the protests were entirely peaceful to begin with but of course China couldn’t let that continue.

        The censorship of the event also speaks a great deal about who’s fault it is.

        • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 days ago

          The protesters on the square did not get shot. The Western media confirms nobody of the peaceful protesters on the square got killed.

          Violent rioters who stoned and burnt police did get killed. On day4. There weer already multiple police killed on day3. Even Western media acknowledges all of what I am saying happened.

          The censorship of the event also speaks a great deal about who’s fault it is.

          The amazing amount of misinformation being spread here says a lot more about how insane the Western brainwashing machine is.