Strike. Chinese sites are closed "for repair"
About 350 Chinese sites closed for renovation from June 3rd to 6th. It was these days 20 years ago there was a massacre in Tiananmen Square , which is carefully ignored by the Chinese authorities, and any mention of it is banned in China.
Chinese websites that take part in the so-called “Chinese Internet Maintenance Day” do not mention Tiananmen in a word, for then they would be instantly closed down, and the site owners might have been arrested. Therefore, on each site hangs a sign on the closure "for repair". This state censors can not ban.
The list of sites that have joined the campaign is constantly updated on Twitter. Here is a summary table . Among the strikers are quite popular in China, an analogue of twitter Fanfou.com and file hosting service VeryCD.com .
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Chinese websites that take part in the so-called “Chinese Internet Maintenance Day” do not mention Tiananmen in a word, for then they would be instantly closed down, and the site owners might have been arrested. Therefore, on each site hangs a sign on the closure "for repair". This state censors can not ban.
The list of sites that have joined the campaign is constantly updated on Twitter. Here is a summary table . Among the strikers are quite popular in China, an analogue of twitter Fanfou.com and file hosting service VeryCD.com .
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via Danwei
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/61352/
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