As demonstrations flared across China, participants raised white sheets of paper as a symbol — and protest — of government censorship, marking one of the greatest displays of public dissent in China in decades.
Protests are not actually rare in China. But authorities, who tightly control media and the internet, regularly go to great lengths to ensure that demonstrators in different regions are unable to link up to form a broader movement, according to analysts.
And so, he said, the blank piece of paper symbolizes the dissatisfaction “that everyone understands what they’re talking about, but they’re not actually able to name that thing that infuriates them.” After Chinese censors banned annual commemorations of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4, internet users began to use “; “25th Anniversary” in 2014; “26th Anniversary” in 2015,” and so on. Beijing banned a pictogram that looks like a tank rolling over a man: 占占点., Chinese internet users used the characters or emoji for “rice,” pronounced “mi” and “bunny,” pronounced “tu.”
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