Tiananmen anniversary 2013: memes vs censorship

mercoledì 5 giugno 2013



June the 4, 2013: the anniversary of 1989 Tiananmen Massacre in China & HK still has the same problem: Online censorship of keywords in WEIBO:
0406, TIANANMEN, TODAY, CANDLE emoticon, and surprising also GIANT RUBBER DUCK.
Why? Netizen used this popular/viral image (a post about it here) and other things like lego, angry birds ecc to represent the original image of the TANK MAN, and escape censorship:



Here some TANK MAN images revisited:









 



BIG COMMEMORATION DONE IN HONG KONG (despire the mainland China silence):









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