Just days before the all important Communist Party conference, a single moment of dissent shocks China and is swiftly censored online.
A second banner read: “remove dictator and national traitor Xi Jinping.” Nearby pedestrians stopped to read the banners and stare at a plume of black smoke from a fire lit on the bridge by the individual who appeared to be dressed in the yellow hard-hat and orange jacket of a construction worker, according to videos of the incident.Some images appeared to show the individual being taken away by police, although there had not been any official confirmation of an arrest by Friday.
On Chinese social media, censors battled with users who tried to share information about the protest, vastly limiting the number of posts visible. Search results for terms as generic as “Beijing,” “Haidian,” or “Sitong” returned far fewer entries than normal and only from officially verified accounts.Some users attempted to circumvent the restrictions by referring obliquely to the incident — a common practice of censorship-evasion.
The defiant act was hailed by Chinese dissidents and overseas human rights activists, many of whom likened the protester to “,” the unidentified man who faced down Chinese soldiers on Chang’an Boulevard on June 5, 1989. China’s high-tech authoritarianism means activists can only operate in “lone warrior” mode, Teng Biao, a Chinese human rights advocate who now lives in the United States,
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