Sunday, January 17, 2010

Google Lifts The Veil On Tiananmen Massacre Images In China As Censorship Row Continues

Tank Man: One of the most iconic images of the Tiananmen Square massacre, that of a man standing alone and defenceless in a face off against four tanks, now appears on Google.cn

From The Daily Mail:

Google has stopped censoring images of the Tiananmen Square massacre on its Chinese website.

Users on Google.cn's image search can now see the iconic picture of Tank Man, among other images from the massacre in the Beijing square in 1989 - just as users on Google's other country portals, such as Google.co.uk, can.

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