Internet Filtering in China in 2004 2005 

d. Tiananmen Square 

Figure 13   Tiananmen Square Google Results 

ONI's testing found wide variation in whether sites on the Tiananmen Square incident could be 

accessed, depending on the search term used.  Chinese language sites related to searches for politically 

sensitive descriptions, such as  massacre  and  six four,  were virtually inaccessible during our testing; we 

found moderate levels of inaccessibility for English language sites pertaining to the search term 

 Tiananmen massacre  (we did not test the terms  six four  or  Tiananmen event  in English since they 

generated too many unrelated sites).  We found filtering of 70% of Chinese language sites related to a 

search for Zhao Ziyang, the former leader of China's Communist Party who was removed from his post for 

opposing the repression of the Tiananmen demonstrations.  Surprisingly, URLs listed in response to a 

search for  Tiananmen Square  itself were only moderately inaccessible for both Chinese and English 

language sites. 

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