Umbrellas: The New Tool of Chinese Censorship

Well, it's not the most high-tech form of censorship that China's communist authorities have ever used.

Yesterday, international media marked the 20th anniversary of the massacre at Tiananmen Square.

But as you can see on their websites, when television crews from CNN and BBC tried to shoot news reports from the Square, their footage was blocked... by umbrellas.

Plainclothes security agents used open umbrellas to block cameramen from getting footage of their reporters, or really much of anything.

Of course, censorship is a tough business in the age of YouTube, and these videos of umbrella censorship are now being watched—and mocked—by Internet users worldwide.

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[MrMan428]

Great idea, not conspicuous at all.

Who does China they think they're fooling? It just comes off as desperate.

[07minute]

well, at least they are not using violence

[Kruizlinx]

This can only last so long, leaders die eventually.. but yeah better sooner then later

[onlyadot]

Quick china it's not working!! GET THE TANKS! :O

[cheungfanfanfanfan]

shame

[Kommandant986]

So you guys are Chinese, yet you guys are traitors to your own country?

[ZarathustraDK]

Lol, they haven't heard of the Streisand-effect in China?

[meritocrat81]

the silliest censorship

[SeeYouNextFall]

The Chinese government are like children.