Citizens have come to Google’s headquarters in Beijing with offerings of flowers and candles.   Google said it stopped censoring its Chinese search engine on Wednesday after hackers inside China were targeting the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights dissidents and 20 Chinese and international companies.

This message in English is “”Google is real man”

On Wednesday, many Chinese residents  were able to see pictures of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre for the first time.

Is it a silent protest for freedom in China?  The real issue is Google’s fight against censorship of the web. Whatever their motives today, let’s support Google in bringing freedom to the web and to the people of China.

Related:

Here is an interesting article on How Google Censors Search Results in China.

Here is a good video that gives you an idea of what happened during  the Tinanmen Square massacre

Update:  Jan 14th 4:30PM.

When I do a search from Canada on Google.cn for images or videos of “tiananmen square massacre tanks”  I  get censored results.  There is really nothing to look at compared to google.ca and google.com.  Has Google started censoring results again or am perhaps looking at an outdated copy of Google’s results.