But when it comes to Sina Weibo, the PRC's analog to Twitter, China's censorship-savvy government seems to have adopted a more surgical strategy. The censors have tried to deconstruct Tiananmen not as history, but as data.Īs schemes for enforcing silence, these approaches-shutdowns, distractions-are sweeping.
It's a silent holiday, for the most part: As the Wall Street Journal's Jason Ng notes, the People’s Daily, the country's Communist Party newspaper, led today's front page with a story about Xi Jinping’s attendance of an engineering conference.
Today-the day known to much of the rest of the world as the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests-is known, in China, as " Internet maintenance day." In anticipation of the anniversary, the PRC's censors have strategically shut down Internet services ( Google's among them).
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