> Google does certain things in relation to Tiananmen Square searches in China

What does Google do with Tiananmen square searches in China? I can't access google here at all.

flumpcakes 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It is a mass killing event which the Chinese government pretends never happened and/or suppresses the information of. Phrases will be banned/filtered from all digital services in China relating to it. From Wikipedia:

> The Tiananmen Square protests, known within China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of unsuccessful attempts between the demonstrators and the Chinese government to find a peaceful resolution, the Chinese government deployed troops to occupy the square on the night of 3 June in what is referred to as the Tiananmen Square massacre. The events are sometimes called the '89 Democracy Movement, the Tiananmen Square Incident, or the Tiananmen uprising.

> Between 200 and 10,000 civilians were killed. The Red Cross states that around 2,600 died and the official Chinese government figure is 241 dead with 7,000 wounded. Amnesty International's estimates puts the number of deaths at several hundred to close to 1,000. As many as 10,000 people were estimated to have been arrested during the protests.

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amanaplanacanal 15 hours ago | parent [-]

So what is Google doing? That was the question. Google isn't available in China.

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flumpcakes 14 hours ago | parent [-]

> Phrases will be banned/filtered from all digital services in China relating to it.

Google was complying with, what I assume is the law in, China and censoring searches for things China doesn't want talked about. Google has since left China, apparently bowing down wasn't enough.

	▲	Thorrez 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In 2010 Google decided to stop censoring results in China. >We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin... Disclosure: I work at Google.

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jandrese a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Completely whitewashed, for all the good it does Google.

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Thorrez 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you have evidence that Google is filtering searches in China?

Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on search.

	▲	jandrese an hour ago \| parent [-]
		https://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-06-04-n13.html This is obviously pretty old, but as people have noted even this level of censorship didn't save Google in China.