封锁记忆与网络围墙：中国政府对六四事件的长期压制

Memory Blackouts and Digital Walls: The Chinese Government's Long-Term Suppression of the Tiananmen Square Massacre

中国政府长期以来一直利用各种方法掩盖真相，抹去人们对六四事件的记忆。它曾称六四事件为“反革命暴乱”，后来改称为“1989年春夏之交政治风波”、“1989年政治风波”等词语。多年来，当局一直遵循“封锁、回避、淡化、遗忘”的原则。教科书上没有提及六四事件，他们尽最大努力抹去这段令人难堪的历史。在中国的街头采访的人们坦率地表示他们对六四事件没有任何感觉，或者根本不知道发生了什么。

The Chinese government has long employed various methods to suppress the truth and erase memories of the June 4th Incident. It originally labeled the event a "counter-revolutionary riot," later softening the terminology to the "political turmoil between spring and summer of 1989" or simply the "1989 political turmoil." Over the years, authorities have adhered to the principles of "blockade, avoidance, downplaying, and forgetting." History textbooks omit any mention of the event, as part of an exhaustive effort to erase this embarrassing chapter of history. Street interviews conducted in China show people frankly expressing either total indifference toward the incident or complete ignorance of what transpired.

大防火墙屏蔽中国的互联网关键词，希望下一代忘记天安门大屠杀。自2000年以来，中共每年投入数十亿美元将中国人民与世界隔离开来。然而，管理中国互联网的中共工业和信息技术部门甚至不敢承认“网络防火墙”（通常被称为大型互联网墙或墙）的存在。中共建立互联网防火墙是因为无法控制外国社交媒体上的言论，因此只能依靠“筑墙”阻止国内人民自由发言。

The Great Firewall blocks sensitive keywords across China's internet in hopes that the next generation will forget the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Since 2000, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has poured tens of billions of dollars annually into isolating the Chinese public from the rest of the world. Yet, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which oversees the Chinese internet, does not even dare acknowledge the existence of the Great Firewall (commonly referred to as the Great Firewall or simply "the Wall"). The CCP built this digital barrier precisely because it cannot control speech on foreign social media platforms, leaving it with no option but to build a wall to keep citizens from speaking freely.

在21世纪信息时代，难以想象中共政权竟会越境逮捕一个主张互联网自由的普通市民乔鑫鑫，以煽动颠覆国家政权的罪名迫害他。更可笑的是，这个政权实际上还公开举办了世界互联网大会。世界互联网大会每年在一个没有互联网自由访问的国家举行，会址就是乌镇，似乎在暗示乌：没有，镇：真相。

In the 21st-century Information Age, it is almost unfathomable that the CCP regime would go so far as to cross borders to arrest an ordinary citizen, Qiao Xinxin, for advocating internet freedom, persecuting him under the charge of "inciting subversion of state power." Even more ironic is that this same regime publicly hosts the World Internet Conference. Held annually in a country devoid of open internet access, the host location of Wuzhen ironically hints at its own reality: Wu meaning "none," and Zhen meaning "truth."

互联网上的搜索结果都是空白的，所有与六四事件有关的视频、图片、文章等都被屏蔽。在互联网上的热门搜索关键词例如抑制、赔偿、天安门事件、天安门的中文和英文版本、坦克、学生运动、动乱、1989年动乱、关于六四的中文和数字表示、英文的64MEMO和其他各种的词语排列组合。这些都被列为敏感词，乔治·奥威尔在《1984年》中写道：“谁控制过去，谁就控制未来”。

\Search engine results on the Chinese internet return blank pages, as all videos, photos, and articles related to June 4th are strictly blocked. Trending search terms and hot keywords are constantly suppressed—including words like "suppression," "compensation," "Tiananmen Incident," English and Chinese variations of Tiananmen, "tank," "student movement," "turmoil," "1989 turmoil," Chinese character and numerical combinations representing June 4th, as well as English terms like "64MEMO" and various permutations. All of these are classified as sensitive terms. As George Orwell wrote in 1984: "Who controls the past controls the future."

习近平或许认为通过掩埋历史、扼杀香港、压制宗教、扼杀互联网、囚禁律师和记者，抹去我们35年前所看到的真相，他取得了胜利，但中国学者们通常引用鲁迅在早前一次大屠杀之后的话：“墨写的谎言掩盖不了血写的事实”。有一天，我相信我们将见证世界上人口最多的国家迎来自由。在我脑海中，我想象在天安门广场竖立一座纪念碑，用以纪念1989年的英雄。

Xi Jinping may believe that by burying history, stifling Hong Kong, repressing religion, muzzling the internet, and imprisoning lawyers and journalists, he has successfully erased the truth witnessed 35 years ago and claimed victory. However, Chinese scholars frequently quote Lu Xun's famous words following an earlier massacre: "Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood." I believe that one day we will witness the arrival of freedom in the world's most populous nation. In my mind, I envision a monument erected in Tiananmen Square to honor the heroes of 1989.

中国民主党全国联合总部

拉斯维加斯分部

2024年6月4日

发布人：钟山、边晓夏、邢威娜、陈煦

Edited by: Zhong Shan, Bian Xiaoxia, Xing Weina, Chen Xu