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A popular Chinese microblogging service banned searches for “yellow duck” after users circulated a mocked-up image of a famous 1989 Tiananmen square tank protest with the military vehicles replaced by plastic ducks, results on Wednesday showed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The picture, a parody of the iconic “Tank Man” photograph of a civilian staring down a long row of tanks, circulated Tuesday, the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen protests’ suppression.<\/p>\n

A large yellow duck artwork is currently on display in Hong Kong, and imitations have been put up in several mainland cities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sina Weibo, China’s most popular microblogging site, blocked searches for “yellow duck”<\/a>, with attempts to do so returning a message reading: “Due to relevant laws and regulations… the search result is not displayed.”<\/p>\n

Other search terms banned by the service include “1989” and numerical formulae such as “63 + 1”, used to refer to the date of the crackdown — “6.4” in US-style date order, which is also blocked.<\/p>\n

Discussion of the Tiananmen crackdown, in which at least several hundred people died, is strictly controlled by China’s ruling Communist party, which is wary of challenges to its authority.<\/p>\n

Reports say that Sina, the company which runs Sina Weibo, employs teams of censors to delete posts<\/strong>, generally exercising self-censorship rather than receiving direct instructions from the Party.<\/p>\n

Source AFP<\/em>
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