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Uncle Joe

(58,300 posts) Tue Jun 3, 2014, 04:45 PM Jun 2014

China Blocked Google ahead of the Tiananmen Square crackdown Anniversary

http://www.mkobserver.com/china-blocked-google-ahead-of-the-tiananmen-square-crackdown-anniversary/173619/

Just before the 25 year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown China already started not to give any digital record of the event as the country blocked the service of Google.

Back in June 1989 soldiers from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) converged with the protesters in the Tiananmen Square leaving hundreds of people killed and over thousands was injured.

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While censorship in China is not new, the decision to disrupt access to the Internet giant represents a serious escalation in the battle to control access to information on the mainland.

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A co-founder of GreatFire said that this has been the biggest attack ever take place in China on Google where the access of their Gmail, image service and map services along with the translation service has been turned off.

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China Blocked Google ahead of the Tiananmen Square crackdown Anniversary (Original Post) Uncle Joe Jun 2014 OP

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #1

Sadly, Snowden was unavailable for comment... Blue_Tires Jun 2014 #2

I imagine he would be against it as well... Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #3

Uncle Joe

(58,300 posts)

1. The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

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Tue Jun 3, 2014, 04:56 PM

Jun 2014

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known as the June Fourth Incident or more accurately '89 Democracy Movement in Chinese,[2] were student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing which took place in the spring of 1989 and received broad support from city residents, exposing deep splits within China's political leadership. The protests were forcibly suppressed by hardline leaders who ordered the military to enforce martial law in the country's capital.[3][4] The crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre or the June 4 Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military's advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks. The scale of military mobilization and the resulting bloodshed were unprecedented in the history of Beijing, a city with a rich tradition of popular protests in the 20th century.[5]

The Chinese government condemned the protests as a "counter-revolutionary riot", and has prohibited all forms of discussion or remembrance of the events since.[6][7] Due to the lack of information from China, many aspects of the events remain unknown or unconfirmed. Estimates of the death toll range from a few hundred to the thousands.[8]

The protests were triggered in April 1989 by the death of former Communist Party General Secretary, Hu Yaobang, a liberal reformer, who was deposed after losing a power struggle with hardliners over the direction of political and economic reform.[9] University students marched and gathered in Tiananmen Square to mourn. Hu had also voiced grievances against inflation, limited career prospects, and corruption of the party elite.[10] The protesters called for government accountability, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and the restoration of workers' control over industry.[11][12] At the height of the protests, about a million people assembled in the Square.[13]

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

2. Sadly, Snowden was unavailable for comment...

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Tue Jun 3, 2014, 05:03 PM

Jun 2014

Uncle Joe

(58,300 posts)

3. I imagine he would be against it as well...

Reply to Blue_Tires (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 3, 2014, 05:11 PM

Jun 2014

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