A photograph of two Chinese athletes hugging after a race has been censored on Chinese social media because the women’s race numbers inadvertently formed a reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.

How fragile is their regime if it is threatened by race numbers?

i wasn't aware about that number, now i am, thanks china

Imagine a government being so weak and thin-skinned that they have to censor two digits next to each other

Fuck the ccp

Remember China disappeared Naomi Wu

Something something streisand effect

I worked for a software company that had a customer in China. Our system had a standard set of emoji that included the world flags. In order for us to keep them as a customer we had to give them a special build without Taiwan's flag because it was illegal.

I would not be surprised if the Chinese government just skipped from June 3 to June 5 and made June 31 days long.

FUCK YOU XI the Pooh

64 is forbidden number now?

“Eternal vigilance is the price of maintaining a dystopian totalitarian shithole”

Do stacks of items only go up to 63 in the Minecraft Chinese release?

Why is 6/4 a refence to the 4th of June when China doesn't use that date format?

this world is really dumb sometimes

I mean yeah ok "silly china" but, god that sucks for Wu.

Not good for anyone when someone gets disqualified.

I thought it was customary to just restart the race when there's a false start.

Uploading this image for future reference of 6/4.

Ah yes, I wonder if anything happened on the 65th day of April, in the square close to the place which the sun rises...

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Lin Yuwei and Wu Yanni, China’s entrants in the women’s 100m hurdles final, embraced after the race at the Asian Games in Hangzhou.

Internet censorship in China, particularly of images, is often done on an ad-hoc basis with human monitors deciding which posts to restrict.

In 2017, Weibo, one of China’s biggest social media platforms with nearly 600 million monthly users, said it employed 1,000 “supervisors” to report on “pornographic, illegal and harmful” content.

That Wu had been allowed to run at all prompted concern that race officials were reluctant to disqualify one of China’s star athletes, regardless of sporting rules.

Mark Dreyer, a China-based sports analyst who was in the stadium for the event, wrote afterwards: “It just felt like the local officials needed to find a way to let Wu run”.

On Weibo, posts from ordinary netizens showing the greyed out squares of Wu and Lin’s “6/4” hug, the comments were more muted.

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