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"June 4 is the anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square protests and the most controversial date of the year in the country. The Chinese government has already brought Google services to a halt as it cracks down on commentaries and reflections of the events in 1989, and most other internet sites are subject to additional censorship too.\r\n\r\nWeibo, China's equivalent to Twitter, censors its users daily but is particularly busy around this time of the year. Jason Q. Ng, who wrote the book 'Blocked On Weibo'\u00A0and Tumblr blog of the same name, compiled a\u00A0list of 64 blocked terms for the Wall Street Journal.\r\n\r\nWe've included a dozen words from the list below, you can read the full compendium at the Journal.\r\n\r\n\tJUNE 4\r\n\t\u5929\u5B89\u95E8: Tiananmen (simplified characters)\r\n\t\u5766\u514B: tank\r\n\tliu\u56DB: phonetic for 6-4\r\n\t\u5B66\u6F6E: campus upheaval\r\n\t\u2165\u2163: Roman numerals for 6-4\r\n\t\u4E94\u6708\u4E09\u5341\u4E94: May 35, aka June 4\r\n\t\u7EF4\u591A\u5229\u4E9A\u516C\u56ED: Victoria Park (site of vigil in Hong Kong)\r\n\tsix quatre: 6-4\r\n\t\u7F05\u6000: nostalgia\u2014possible reference to Tiananmen Mothers\r\n\t2\u76846\u6B21\u65B9: 2 to the power of 6 (that is, 64)\r\n\t\u70DB\u5149: candle-lit (vigil)\r\n\r\nIn addition, it seems Weibo is preventing users from searching for messages that include the word 'today' -- how is that for a crackdown?\r\nToday, June 4, 2014, Sina Weibo began censoring searches for &amp;quot;Today.&amp;quot; #Tiananmen pic.twitter.com/lUm6rQQ9E0\r\n\r\n\u2014 William Farris (@wafarris) June 4, 2014\r\n\u27A4 Wall Street Journal\r\n\r\nImage via Lionel Bonaventure / Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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