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I live in China and I don't think it's wrong to use Tian'anmen (at least the Chinese term) as a keyword: http://www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&source=hp&q=天安门广场

by garply 17y ago

I live in China and I don't think it's wrong to use Tian'anmen (at least the Chinese term) as a keyword: http://www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&source=hp&q=天安门广场事件+1989&aq=8&aqi=g1g-z1g8&aql=&oq=天安&gs_rfai= http://www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&source=hp&q=天安门... (Tian'anmen Square incident 1989) That looks quite censored to me (ymmv if you access this from outside the PRC). Like the man standing in front of the tank? I'm sure my girlfriend (who is a native Beijinger) would like to blog about that, but she wouldn't dare. She occasionally tells me about how one of her grade school classmates got hit by a stray bullet and died at Tian'anmen. She lived near the Square and heard the gunfire as a child and her sister's got a drawing she made of the freedom statue that was put up there. I could see all of those things going into blog posts, except they don't put them there because of fear of retribution. So I think there is censorship around the term, and I think it's a valid search query.

est 17y ago
> I'm sure my girlfriend (who is a native Beijinger) would like to blog about that, but she wouldn't dare. You see, what I mean is that Google does not really censor this Tiananmen keyword too hard, but it's really there's not many Chinese content about 'tiananmen'. Because people would not write about that particular keyword. The real heavily censored keyword about Tiananmen is this http://203.208.37.99/search?q=%E5%85%AD%E5%9B%9B%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6 http://203.208.37.99/search?q=%E5%85%AD%E5%9B%9B%E4%BA%8B%E4... > That looks quite censored to me Try this one http://203.208.37.99/search?q=89%E5%AD%A6%E6%BD%AE http://203.208.37.99/search?q=89%E5%AD%A6%E6%BD%AE Like I said, the domestic Chinese see things from a different angle, because westerners don't see it does not mean it didn't happen or Chinese didn't know.
- garply 17y ago
  I'm not sure why we're disagreeing. The "6/4 incident" is heavily censored (and I imagine moreso because that's what you guys would use more often to talk about the event), but so is my search term. On the search result pages, there are only like 4 or 5 results per page. Page 6 is totally empty: http://www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&newwindow=1&q=天安门广场事件+1989&start=50&sa=N http://www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&newwindow=1&q=天... Page 7 has one entry, etc.

by garply 17y ago

est 17y ago

> I'm sure my girlfriend (who is a native Beijinger) would like to blog about that, but she wouldn't dare. You see, what I mean is that Google does not really censor this Tiananmen keyword too hard, but it's really there's not many Chinese content about 'tiananmen'. Because people would not write about that particular keyword. The real heavily censored keyword about Tiananmen is this http://203.208.37.99/search?q=%E5%85%AD%E5%9B%9B%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6 http://203.208.37.99/search?q=%E5%85%AD%E5%9B%9B%E4%BA%8B%E4... > That looks quite censored to me Try this one http://203.208.37.99/search?q=89%E5%AD%A6%E6%BD%AE http://203.208.37.99/search?q=89%E5%AD%A6%E6%BD%AE Like I said, the domestic Chinese see things from a different angle, because westerners don't see it does not mean it didn't happen or Chinese didn't know.

garply 17y ago
I'm not sure why we're disagreeing. The "6/4 incident" is heavily censored (and I imagine moreso because that's what you guys would use more often to talk about the event), but so is my search term. On the search result pages, there are only like 4 or 5 results per page. Page 6 is totally empty: http://www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&newwindow=1&q=天安门广场事件+1989&start=50&sa=N http://www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&newwindow=1&q=天... Page 7 has one entry, etc.