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The ‘Tank Man’ image which has been altered to replace the tanks with large yellow ducks (Vincent Yu/AP).
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 today showed.
The picture, a parody of the iconic “Tank Man” photograph of a civilian staring down a long row of tanks, circulated yesterday, the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen protests’ suppression.
A large yellow duck artwork is currently on display in Hong Kong, and imitations have been put up in several mainland cities.
The fake image that has been making the rounds on Weibo (Image: Sina Weibo).
Sina Weibo, China’s most popular microblogging site, blocked searches for “yellow duck”, with attempts to do so returning a message reading: “Due to relevant laws and regulations… the search result is not displayed.”
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.
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.
Reports say that Sina, the company which runs Sina Weibo, employs teams of censors to delete posts, generally exercising self-censorship rather than receiving direct instructions from the Party.
- © AFP 2013.
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I could really go for a bottle of Personi right about now!
Blue label peroni, unbelievably good. Costs a fortune in Ireland though.
Heineken don’t do selling out but if they did!
Fizzy piss
Gary,
“Fizzy p”
Input or output?
Pizzy fiss?
I normally have piss problem with bud
Cant understand how people like the chemical muck, that is heineken
Reading that does make the mouth water for a nice cold beer
Turn a bottle of Heinikin upside down and you will see the Devil in the detail.
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