Hundreds of pages of secret documents leaked to the ABC provide a rare glimpse into how human censors and AI erase references to Beijing's violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1989.

It has grown faster, smarter and increasingly invisible, quietly erasing the memory of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre from public view.

Thirty-six years on, Beijing still has not disclosed the official death toll of the bloody crackdown on a pro-democracy gathering on June 4, when more than 1 million protesters were in the square.

Historians estimate that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) killed anywhere from 200 to several thousand people that day.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Anyone that has used rednote for more than 5 minutes knows that the Chinese people are actually pretty cool and welcoming and friendly to foreigners on their app.

    And they also know for absolute fucking sure that the Chinese government has an absolute strangle hold on all the information that goes through there and your post about anything that shuts a negative light on the government would be immediately removed.

    Of course, US social media companies are starting to act the same way about anything that’s not maga agenda. Shit’s getting censored right left and left as violent, while there are no limits on the amount of anti-gay, anti-gaza, anti-trans, anti-minority hatespeech.