Censorship’s negative effect will arouse a rebellion that would be more egregious than the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989, once Chinese people find out that their own Chinese troops, slaughtered several students who were just participating in a non-violent protest. The Chinese people and the Chinese culture would not be the same after the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4th, 1989. Since the protest, the Chinese government suppressed everything from the Chinese people.This included google, social media, and anything of that sort that would allow one to search anything ‘incriminating’, like Tiananmen Square. Furthermore, if any Chinese citizen, who was able to live to tell the tale, would also be punished, whether being …show more content…
Since he played a role of trying to make China more ‘modern’ and trying to create ways to increase economic growth, hundreds and thousands of students wanted to go to Tiananmen square to pay their respects. Some of these students also wanted to voice their opinion on “China’s authoritative communist government” (History). Because the students were not in agreement with the Chinese government and the way its was supposed to be ran, they ordered to speak with Premier Li Peng. Unfortunately, their request was denied and that was when the terror began. Over a hundred thousand students from forty universities came to protest in Tiananmen Square. Not only were there students, but there were intellectuals, workers, and civil servants. By the end of May, there were over a one million protesters at Tiananmen Square. The Chinese government was not pleased that so many of their citizens were protesting and not abiding rules, after many attempts and many mediations to end this protest. Due to the citizens disobedience, the government called for martial law and Chinese troops to retrieve Tiananmen Square at any cost. Many of the troops murdered several non-violent protesters that day. After that day, the government threatened all of their citizens if they speak of that day, they will immediately be