Editing Tank Man (section)

== Censorship ==
{{see also|Overseas censorship of Chinese issues}}

In 2006, a [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] interview of six experts observed that the memory of the Tiananmen Square protests appears to have faded in China, especially among younger Chinese people, due to government censorship.<ref>{{cite web |website=PBS.org |date=11 April 2006 |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/themes/legacy.html|title=Legacy of June Fourth}}</ref> Images of the protest on the Internet have been [[Internet censorship in China|censored in China]].<ref name="times30" /> When undergraduate students at Beijing University, which was at the center of the incident, were shown copies of the photograph 16 years later, they were "genuinely mystified".<ref name="frontlineinterview">{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/interviews/wong.html|title=The Tank Man: Interview: Jan Wong |access-date=August 12, 2010|date=April 11, 2006|work=Frontline|publisher=PBS}}</ref> One of the students said that the image was "artwork".

It has been suggested that the "Unknown Rebel", if still alive, may be unaware of his international recognition.<ref name="times30" /><!-- Src has been updated to use archive.org copy; sentence shortened to say no more than what's in the source. -->

After the events in the square, the local [[Public security bureau (China)|public security bureau]] treated members of the international press roughly, confiscating and destroying all the film they could find, and forced journalists to sign confessions to offenses such as photography during martial law, punishable by long imprisonment.<ref name="BBC News" />

On August 20, 2020, a trailer for ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War]]'' showed footage of Tank Man. On video platforms in China like [[Bilibili]], the segment of the trailer was replaced with a black screen. The next day, [[Activision Blizzard]] released a shorter version of the trailer worldwide that did not include the scene.<ref>{{cite news |title=Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is censored over Tiananmen crackdown clip |url=https://www.scmp.com/abacus/games/article/3098634/call-duty-black-ops-cold-war-trailer-gets-censored-china-over |work=South China Morning Post |date=2020-08-25 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Perez |first1=Matt |title=New Call Of Duty Trailer Censored In China Over Tiananmen Square Footage |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/08/24/new-call-of-duty-trailer-censored-in-china-over-tiananmen-square-footage/?sh=3dab891240af |work=Forbes |language=en}}</ref>

On June 4, 2021, the [[32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre|32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre]], searches for the Tank Man image and videos were censored by [[Microsoft]]'s [[Microsoft Bing|Bing]] search engine worldwide. Hours after Microsoft acknowledged the issue, the search returned only pictures of tanks elsewhere in the world. Search engines that license results from Microsoft such as [[DuckDuckGo]] and [[Yahoo]] faced similar issues. Microsoft said the issue was "due to an accidental human error."<ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-06-05|title=Microsoft says error caused 'Tank Man' Bing censorship|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57367100|access-date=2021-06-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Campbell|first=Ian Carlos|date=2021-06-04|title=Microsoft says Bing's 'Tank Man' censorship was a human error|url=https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/4/22519418/microsoft-bing-china-tank-man-tiananmen-square|access-date=2021-06-06|website=The Verge|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Microsoft says error led to no matching Bing images for Tiananmen 'tank man' |url=https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-bing-raises-concerns-over-lack-image-results-tiananmen-tank-man-2021-06-04/ |work=Reuters |date=2021-06-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Microsoft blocks Bing from showing image results for Tiananmen 'tank man' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/04/microsoft-bing-tiananmen-tank-man-results |work=the Guardian |date=2021-06-05 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Bing Censors Image Search for 'Tank Man' Even in US |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/bing-censors-tank-man/ |work=VICE |language=en}}</ref> The director of [[Human Rights Watch]], [[Kenneth Roth]], said the idea that it was an inadvertent error is "hard to believe". David Greene, [[Civil Liberties]] Director at the [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]], said that content moderation was impossible to do perfectly and "egregious mistakes are made all the time", but, he further elaborated, "At worst, this was purposeful suppression at the request of a powerful state."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tilley |first1=Aaron |title=Microsoft's Bing Temporarily Blocked Searches of Tiananmen Square 'Tank Man' Image |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsofts-bing-temporarily-blocked-searches-of-tiananmen-square-tank-man-image-11622845011 |work=Wall Street Journal |date=2021-06-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Microsoft says error caused 'Tank Man' Bing censorship |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57367100 |work=BBC News |date=2021-06-05}}</ref>