China blanks Nobel Peace prize searches
Found on CNN news on Friday, 08 October 2010
Type "Liu Xiaobo" -- or "Nobel Peace Prize," for that matter -- in search engines in China and hit return, you get a blaring error page.
"Nobel Prize" was the top-trending topic until the authorities acted to remove all mentions of the award.
A Shanghai-based netizen, @littley, tweeted his unfortunate experience: "My SIM card just got de-activated, turning my iPhone to an iPod touch after I texted my dad about Liu Xiaobo winning the Nobel Peace Prize."
Kudos to the Nobel committee for this decision. China's dictators aren't happy at all about this, and that's great.