In the run-up to the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, China is censoring foreign media and the internet to an extent not seen since the crackdown that preceded the Beijing Olympics.
BBC News broadcasts were blacked out in Beijing on Monday night. Last Saturday’s edition of the Financial Times, which contained an interview with
Bao Tong, the most prominent Tiananmen-era dissident still residing in China, was either not delivered
Blanket bans have returned to the internet in Beijing, replacing what had been a more sophisticated mix of self-censorship requirements for website hosts, news portals and bloggers.
however, the censors’ work is patchy. While Google News searches for topics unrelated to Tiananmen intermittently turn-up blank pages, a video of a Tiananmen memorial rally was still accessible
clipped from: www.ft.com