{"id":55664,"date":"2023-06-02T19:01:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T10:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/02\/chinese-censors-remove-protest-sitong-bridge-tiananmen-square"},"modified":"2023-06-02T19:01:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T10:01:35","slug":"chinese-censors-remove-protest-site-sitong-bridge-from-online-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55664","title":{"rendered":"Chinese censors remove protest site Sitong Bridge from online maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid usual scrubbing for Tiananmen Square anniversary, searches for bridge where protest was held in 2022 return no results<\/p>\n<p>Chinese censors scrubbing the internet of any words or symbols that could be used to reference the Tiananmen Square massacre in the run-up to Sunday\u2019s anniversary have a new target in their sights: a bridge in Beijing where a rare protest was staged last year.<\/p>\n<p>As the 34th anniversary of the 1989 massacre approaches, anyone searching in Chinese for Sitong Bridge on Baidu maps will draw a blank.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/02\/chinese-censors-remove-protest-sitong-bridge-tiananmen-square\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid usual scrubbing for Tiananmen Square anniversary, searches for bridge where protest was held in 2022 return no resultsChinese censors scrubbing the internet of any words or symbols that could be used to reference the Tiananmen Square massacre in t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,458,50,236,351,238,80,235,58,431,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-digital-media","category-internet","category-media","category-protest","category-social-media","category-technology","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55665,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55664\/revisions\/55665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}