China's Douban Platform Bans Popular Accounts as Censorship Is Raised for Tiananmen Square Anniversary

China is notorious for dialing up its internet censorship as the June 4 anniversary of the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown approaches. Each year, its censors go into high alert to wipe out any direct, indirect or disguised references to the 1989 incident, during which the People's Liberation Army fired upon peaceful democracy protestors in the heart of Beijing.