In another move to restrict what its citizens see online, China has banned the wikipedia.org domain just weeks before the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests. In a statement, a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, confirmed that the site is not accessible in China. “The internet freedom landscape in China is already so highly restricted, with so much censored under a really extensive surveillance and censorship apparatus in the country,” Truong said. According to the Wikipedia page for the Tiananmen Square Protests, in 1989, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army killed thousands of protesters who were attempting to march onto Tiananmen Square to demand, among other things, for democracy and freedom of speech. “Every year, we’ve seen a growing breadth of content that’s blocked around critical events like Tiananmen Square and other high-profile government events,” Truong said.

Source: National Post May 15, 2019 16:30 UTC