As Will posted earlier, today is the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre that took place on June 4th, 1989. However, in China, all references to the Tiananmen Square massacre and today's date June 4th, have been censored throughout the country. Any reference to this date on the internet in China is being blocked (I'm sure this blog is already blocked in China now that we have posted twice about the massacre).
Chinese bloggers and internet users, however, have created a clever little way to evade this censorship by using May 35th, instead of June 4th, as a reference to the massacre when seeking to write about this major incident. Just goes to show the ingenuity of these bloggers and the rise of a market for a 35th day in the month of May.
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