2026-11-10
Recently, a Xiaohongshu (RedNote) influencer filming in a restaurant in Denmark captured historical footage of the June 4th 'Tank Man' playing on a screen. After the video was posted, netizens used slang such as '4896' and 'the censors are asleep' to mock the fact that it slipped through the Great Firewall.
2026-11-09
Around November 9, a netizen live-streamed the game 'Neverness to Everness' on Douyin, in which a camouflage tank drove onto city streets and fired at a building entrance. The live chat associated the scene with the 1989 June 4 tank crackdown. Afterward, the streamer's account could no longer be found by searching their nickname from the recording.
2026-11-05
Recently, netizens discovered that a Bilibili video titled "Trump wants to be president for a third term, can the Constitution stop him?" reached 79,000 views, but is suspected of being silenced—with comments and bullet comments showing zero—due to allegations that it alludes to Xi Jinping's constitutional amendment.
2026-11
Netizens discovered a baseball cap on Taobao printed with the characters "Cuiping," named after the character Wang Cuiping from the TV series "Lurking." Because the character "Cuiping" (翠) can be disassembled into "Xi Xi Su" (習習卒 - meaning Xi dies twice), it was used to allude to Xi Jinping, and the product was removed shortly after being discovered.
2026-10-24
On October 24, netizens reported that sending words containing specific Chinese characters, such as 'xuexi niux', in Douyin comment sections was intercepted by the system with a violation warning.
2026-10-22
On October 22, Sohu Auto was banned from posting by the platform for 15 days for publishing content related to an AITO vehicle explosion and fire, drawing public attention to automaker PR and speech control.
2026-10-21
On October 21, a large number of netizens reported having their Moments features restricted, or even permanently banned, for posting sentences containing specific homophonic characters, such as "accustomed to the plain and uneventful days lately," in their WeChat Moments.
2026-10-21
After several mainland netizens posted reflections containing specific homophones on WeChat Moments, their Moments feature was restricted until November 20 or their WeChat accounts were banned.
2026-10-18
According to a tweet posted by X user @QuanLujun, content related to former CCP Central Committee General Secretary Hu Jintao can no longer be searched on the Chinese video platform Bilibili (B站). The user pointed out that Hu Jintao has been blocked on the internet behind the Great Firewall, and expressed concern over whether he will become a sensitive topic like June Fourth.
2026-10-08
On October 8, foreign game streamer Horcus was invited by Douyin to take part in a Valorant exhibition match. After the room number leaked, someone slipped into the voice chat and repeatedly insulted Xi Jinping; the streamer on scene urgently called for them to be kicked. Afterwards, more than a dozen streamers had their channels banned.
2026-09-14
Liu Kai, a 20-year-old college student in Beijing, used circumvention software to follow anti-CCP influencers on YouTube and downloaded videos to share with classmates. He was criminally detained by the Haidian Branch of the Beijing Public Security Bureau on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power.
2026-09-11
On September 11, a Kuaishou streamer read out a statement twice during a live broadcast, publicly criticizing the Chinese Communist Party and Xi Jinping, and calling for an end to the one-party dictatorship through a non-violent, non-cooperative velvet revolution. About two and a half minutes later, the live stream was forcibly shut down.
2026-09-10
On September 10, a netizen from Jiangsu posted a protest poster showing four bloggers with their mouths taped shut, protesting their permanent account bans for discussing sensitive political topics. Netizens in the comments section expressed their dissatisfaction, directly stating "We are hostages."
2026-09-12
Around September 12, 2026, a livestream sales influencer with a large following publicly shouted “Xi Jinping step down” during a broadcast, and spoke about nonviolent civil disobedience and the Czech revolution that overthrew the Communist Party. When sensitive words were mentioned, the comment section of the livestream was immediately closed.
2026-09
Bilibili user Chen Xiaohong posted a video arguing that government legitimacy should derive from the authorization of the people and free elections, opposing the one-party dictatorship under Xi Jinping's leadership, and calling for an end to one-party rule and the establishment of a constitutional democratic system; about one minute after the speech, the account was banned.
2026-09
After QQ account "Forge Ahead Little Dog" reposted a Party media propaganda poster titled "A Grand Chapter of Prosperity" and posted loyalty messages such as "This prosperous age is as you wished," it immediately received a notice that the QQ account had been permanently frozen for allegedly spreading sensitive information.
2026-08-14
CCP party media People's Daily published a message soliciting opinions from the public, but the comment section showed "no comments yet," with only the author allowed to comment, sparking netizen criticism of it as "fishing" and "solving the person who raises the problem."
2026-08-12
On August 12, 2026, when a documentary on Jiang Zemin's life broadcast by CCTV reviewed the 1989 events, the footage unexpectedly showed in full the World Economic Herald front page slogan about speaking the truth, sparking discussion among netizens.
2026-07-29
On July 29, 2026, the historical nonfiction work Eight Thousand Hunan Women Go to the Tianshan Mountains, which records the history of supporting the frontier, was subjected to content control on reading platforms such as Douban and WeChat Reading. All of its readers' reviews were wiped out, and the rating and tagging functions were shut down and disabled.
2026-07-01
Zhang Naixian, an independent film director in Beijing, was taken away from his home by multiple police (Public Security) officers on the evening of July 1 for posting satirical comments about the authorities on the X platform. His family later received a criminal detention notice for the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble issued by the Haidian Branch.
2026-06-24
On June 24, 2026, China Digital Times publicly released 718 internal censorship directives from LeTV, detailing the complete process by which internet regulators issued deletion and filtering orders regarding leaders and sensitive incidents from 2017 to 2020.
2026-06
In June 2026, online information revealed that the Cyberspace Administration of China had issued an order demanding a comprehensive interception and ban — covering clips, text, and audio/video — on the special video program about Wang Hongwen produced by Chai Jing.
2026-06
In June 2026, overseas political blogger "Toronto Fang Lian" publicly stated on social media that the CCP's state security department had sent a message through his family in China, offering to exchange his family's personal freedom for the deletion of his criticisms of Xi Jinping.
2024-11
Sima Nan's accounts on multiple platforms have stopped updating. According to foreign media reports, he was banned from posting for one year, with the specific reason not disclosed.
2023-10-30
On October 30, 2023, Gu Wanming, former head of the Guangdong branch of the Xinhua News Agency, issued an open letter in his capacity as a veteran Party member, making five demands regarding the death of Li Keqiang: suspending the cremation, setting up an investigation team, holding those responsible accountable, conducting an autopsy, and holding the funeral according to protocol. He was subsequently placed under criminal detention.
2021-12-29
Beijing Haidian police announced that three individuals who fabricated and spread false information involving Tong Liya have been placed under administrative detention.
2019
Sun Yuanping was taken by several police officers to a police station, searched, and forced to close his Twitter account after retweeting a cartoon depicting dictators, including Xi Jinping, playing cards. He was subsequently placed under administrative detention for seven days.
2019
In 2019, Cheng Wanjun was reported for commenting on Xi Jinping at his workplace, subsequently sentenced to six years in prison. After completing his sentence in 2025, he left the country and arrived in Thailand.
2018-01
A graduate doctor working at a hospital of traditional Chinese medicine in Guangzhou published a post pointing out that Hongmao medicinal liquor contains a variety of toxic Chinese herbs. After the article was widely shared online, Inner Mongolia police, without any coordination with local public security, secretly arrested him across provincial lines and detained him for months. When he was released from prison, he was physically and psychologically traumatized and covered with illnesses.
2017-09-12
After 19 years on air, the program "Qiangqiang Sanrenxing" suddenly announced on its official Weibo without any warning that it was temporarily suspended due to company program adjustments, and subsequent search results were blocked.
2016-02-28
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has legally closed the Weibo account of Ren Zhiqiang, who had nearly 37 million followers, on the grounds of "continuously publishing illegal information."
2014-10
On the occasion of the 101st anniversary of the birth of Xi Zhongxun, Xi Yuanping published a reminiscence article titled “Beautiful Woodlands” in the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily, recounting the love story with his wife Zhang Lanlan and accompanied by a photo of the two together; the article was subsequently reported to have been ordered deleted across the entire network.
2013
Well-known public intellectual Xue Manzi was arrested on charges of prostitution and had his account banned, signaling a crackdown on public opinion.
2009-11-19
In November 2009, Southern Weekly left its front-page headline blank, using an empty layout to protest the propaganda department's forced removal of an editorial accompanying an interview with Obama.
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2009-01
After Yang Jia was executed, his mother Wang Jingmei opened a blog on Sina. Her first post wrote of the grief of losing her son. The blog was soon forced to close. Ai Weiwei cited this case in a blog roundtable discussion in January 2009 to illustrate the power of individual voices, and how afraid the authorities are.
2005-03-16
On March 16, 2005, the Tsinghua Network Center blocked access from off-campus, and the Shuimu Tsinghua BBS was converted into an on-campus-only system, leaving 82.3% of its former off-campus users unable to log in; on April 14 the servers were taken over by the university, and on April 19 the station affairs committee resigned en masse.
2004-07-19
After being released on July 19, 2004, Jiang Yanyong remained under long-term surveillance and in a state of house arrest; on March 22, 2005 he regained freedom of movement, but was told he was barred from accepting interviews and given other restrictions, and approval to go abroad was not granted.
2003-04-03
On April 3, 2003, Health Minister Zhang Wenkang told a press conference in Beijing that Beijing had only 12 SARS cases and 3 deaths, and said it was safe whether or not you wore a mask; the next day, Jiang Yanyong disclosed higher figures from military hospitals.