Google Search “Tiananmen” .cn vs the rest of us.

When Google said that "some" information would get through. They mean pictures of people on holiday. (click images to enlarge)

This is what people in China get when they type in "Tiananmen" in Google Image search.

(These are real screen captures that I made. But if you’re on firefox they forward you to the uncensored page. To get this image, I used the safari browser on my mac.)

http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen

http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen

For the rest of us. We see this.

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Published by Yan Sham-Shackleton

Yan Sham-Shackleton is a Hong Kong writer who lives in Los Angeles. This is her old blog Glutter written mostly in Hong Kong from 2003 to 2007. Although it was a personal blog, Yan focused a lot on free speech issues and democratic movement in Hong Kong. She moved to the US in 2007. View more posts

3 thoughts on “Google Search “Tiananmen” .cn vs the rest of us.”

Great job! I hope other people see these screen shots. It distills the debate about Google censorship in China into 2 arresting images and demonstrates clearly what internet censorship really means. – Mary (DemoBlog)

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