> The Tiananmen Square protests, known within China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of unsuccessful attempts between the demonstrators and the Chinese government to find a peaceful resolution, the Chinese government deployed troops to occupy the square on the night of 3 June in what is referred to as the Tiananmen Square massacre. The events are sometimes called the '89 Democracy Movement, the Tiananmen Square Incident, or the Tiananmen uprising.
> Between 200 and 10,000 civilians were killed. The Red Cross states that around 2,600 died and the official Chinese government figure is 241 dead with 7,000 wounded. Amnesty International's estimates puts the number of deaths at several hundred to close to 1,000. As many as 10,000 people were estimated to have been arrested during the protests.
Google was complying with, what I assume is the law in, China and censoring searches for things China doesn't want talked about. Google has since left China, apparently bowing down wasn't enough.
>We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...
Disclosure: I work at Google.
Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on search.
This is obviously pretty old, but as people have noted even this level of censorship didn't save Google in China.
>We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...
What does Google do with Tiananmen square searches in China? I can't access google here at all.