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Shortly after Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo's death was announced, China's biggest social network has started censoring a host of words -- and even emoji -- typically used in mourning posts.

If emoji is a language, then its letters are becoming politicised. We’ve seen this before. The introduction of a rifle emoji was ignored by Apple and Google, and the gun emoji was subsequently ...

As the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre approached, in the wee hours of June 2 and 3 Sina Weibo quietly removed the candle icon from its collection of “frequently used emoticons,” replacing ...