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First it's an easy way to test censorship. Second, you might flip the question: why is the Chinese govt so obsessed that they still block all mention of the event?

I don’t get why the government doesn’t recognize the event and then mold it to its narrative, like so many other governments do.

They basically need to give it the Hollywood treatment.

I’m sure a lot of people don’t know that prior to the event, the protesters lynched and set soldiers on fire.

They do, but prefer to use their own keywords, such as the June 4th incident.

The question you should ask yourself is why are these Chinese labs so "obsessed with a decades old event" that they need to specifically train them to ignore the training corpus?

It is because of tankman.

It really is one of the greatest photographs of all time.

If it wasn't for tankman, this would have all been forgot about in the west by September 1989.

We also don't know enough about China in the west to not know it is like bringing up the Kent State shootings at every mention of the US national guard.

As if there was an article about the US national guard helping flood victims in 2025 and someone has to mention

"That is great but what about the Kent State shootings in 1970?!?"