Friday, May 2, 2014

Baidu Search Results for Tiananmen Incident Anniversary - 20th vs. 25th

These screenshots show Baidu results for “Tiananmen Incident 20th Anniversary” (天安门事件二十周年) in 2009 and “Tiananmen Incident 25th Anniversary” (天安门事件二十五周年) in 2014. In 2009 Baidu returned one result. In 2014, Baidu told users it could not find any search results.

In neither case did Baidu display a censorship notice.

These screenshots show the same searches on Google.com.


Translation: Sun Daluo's Court Judgment for Sharing Books and Articles

The PRC government sentenced Sun Zhiming (孙志明, who wrote under the alias Sun Daluo (孙大骆)) to one year imprisonment for the crime of "di...