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The CCP censors the internet simply because they don't want Chinese citizens having access to information that does not conform to State ideology. I went on a guided tour of Beijing last October. My tourguide said he'd never seen 'that photo' (of the protestor standing in front of the tank in Tiananmen Square) until 2005, and then he only saw it because an American tourist he'd guided emailed it to him from the States.
Apparently, and this is purely hearsay from the tourguide's mouth, most Beijingites know something happened at Tiananmen Square, but have no way of finding out exactly what.
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