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10:02pm

Mon June 4, 2012
NPR tech news

'Today,' 'Tomorrow,' and nine other words you can't search for in China

Originally published on Mon June 4, 2012 2:20 pm

Credit Jeff Widner / AP

A weird coincidence has led the Chinese government to block certain Internet searches for "Shanghai Composite Index," the country's big stock exchange.

Twenty-three years ago today — June 4, 1989 — the Chinese government began its violent crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square. The Shanghai Stock Exchange fell by 64.89 points on Monday — a number that evokes 6/4/89, the date of the crackdown.

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