Lecia tiananmen square video11/11/2023 ![]() Hundreds of references to 4 June 1989 are banned all-year round by thousands of cyber police, and Weibo steps up censorship of even seemingly innocuous references to the incident on its anniversary. If any pictures of tanks running along Chang’an Avenue are visible in image searches, they are only from Victory Day parades. If users search for “Tiananmen” on domestic search engines like Baidu or social media platforms like Sina Weibo, they only see sunny pictures of the Forbidden City in Beijing. How China keeps Tiananmen off the internetīy Kerry Allen, BBC Monitoring China analystĬhina has banned all activists’ commemorations of the 1989 Tiananmen incident for years and has strictly regulated online discussion of it. The BBC has contacted Leica for additional comment. They added that the company “must therefore distance itself from the content shown in the video and regrets any misunderstandings of false conclusions that may have been drawn”. However it features Leica cameras and the company’s logo at the end of the footage. Consumers in China have rallied around the company, which uses Leica technology in its latest mobile phones.Ī spokeswoman for Leica told the South China Morning Post that the film was not an officially sanctioned marketing film commissioned by the company. Some comments urge users to “boycott the camera” and joke about the company being linked to “patriotic Huawei”.Ĭhinese technology giant Huawei has been restricted by the US and other countries over security concerns in telecommunications networks. However some people are managing to post carefully worded comments on earlier official Leica posts, BBC Monitoring has found.Ī search of the hashtag Leica shows that 42,000 users have left posts on Weibo but only 10 are available to view. Users on Chinese social media site Weibo have been forbidden from commenting on recent official posts by Leica. The “Tank Man” can be seen in the camera’s lens. What happened to him remains unknown.īeginning with the caption “Beijing 1989”, the Leica video features a photographer taking the famous image. He was later pulled away from the scene by two men. ![]() He refused to move out of the way and climbed onto the leading tank to speak to the driver. ![]() “Tank Man” was a lone protester who brought a column of tanks to a standstill during a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing in 1989. Leica has distanced itself from the video. People on Chinese social media site Weibo have called for a boycott of the camera brand. The video depicts photographers working in conflicts around the world, including a photographer covering the 1989 protests. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the pro-democracy protestsĪ promotional video for camera company Leica has sparked backlash in China for featuring a famous Tiananmen Square image.
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