According to Hong Kong media, democracy protest graffiti against Chinese President Xi Jinping has been “blurred” in the updated edition of Google Street View Map.
Screenshots show one of the slogans, which read “Xi Jinping will have to die for the smart ones in the world,” spray-painted on a major highway before appearing blurry on the search engine’s website.
A Google spokesman said the blurred graffiti was due to an “algorithm error,” according to Hong Kong Free Press.
Pro-democracy protest graffiti targeting Chinese President Xi Jinping has “faded” on Google’s updated Street View map, according to a Hong Kong media report.
The screenshots show one of the slogans, which read “Xi Jinping will have to die for the smart ones of the world”, spray-painted on a main road before appearing blurry on the search engine website.
Google updated its Street View map to include photographs of city streets taken last October when Hong Kong was plagued by months of protests against the government.
The motion continued when a national security law imposed across Beijing to obtain the entire city provoked new waves of protests.
A photo posted through Hong Kong Free Press shows graffiti against aerosol-painted President Xi in a line of pots separating traffic lanes on Nathan Road, where large concentrations erupted last year’s protests.
He said: “Anti-Communist. Xi Jinping will have to die for the smart ones of the world.” But the tagline was faded in another screenshot of the Google Street View update.
The graffiti is only revealed when viewed from further down the Kowloon Road, according to the report.
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