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China Blanks Nobel Peace Prize Searches

1 a bee writes "CNN is reporting that China is attempting to block all communication regarding Peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo. Even texting is affected: 'Text-messaging on mobile phones is not immune from censors, either. 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."' Might as well add Slashdot to the censored list." Further coverage is available from NBC.

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  1. Well by Yocto+Yotta · · Score: 4, Funny

    You got to admire their attention to detail. I wish my government cared that much about ANYTHING.

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    1. Re:Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Why? You got the other networks to do that.

    2. Re:Well by pipatron · · Score: 2, Funny

      Citation needed for bullshit like that.

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  2. Re:As long as we Americans keep buying made in Chi by countSudoku() · · Score: 5, Funny

    And it's as boring as fuck and written by men scared of pork products. Next?! I love bacon. Where's your silly "god" now? 666, Hail Satan!!1!

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  3. Re:But, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    China is just trying to protect it's citizens against the terrorist and child porn. Sheesh.

    Due to either improper grammar or ambiguous phrasing, that almost sounds like China is trying to protects its citizens against terrorist porn and child porn.

    Wait, did I just give people a new super-fear thing from which they need to protect the children by combining terrorism and porn? OH SHIIIIIIII-

  4. Letter From America by Bemopolis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear China,
    Fuck you and your backward, stultifying Communist state!

    P.S. Do you have 4 trillion to loan us so we can extend our tax cuts?

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  5. Re:But, but... by StikyPad · · Score: 4, Funny

    INT. SMALL BRICK AND MUD HOME SOMEWHERE IN DESERT -- NIGHT

    NADA enters stage right, catching RASHID at a makeshift workbench covered in sections of pipe, wires, and indeterminate objects.

    NADA: Rashid!! What are you doing with that pipe?!?

    RASHID looks calmly at NADA -- perhaps even seductively.

    RASHID: Do not worry, I am expert with all kinds of pipe.

    NADA: Oh, Rashid!

    NADA pulls on her sleeve, briefly exposing her wrist before..

    FADE TO BLACK

    {{Bom chicka bow wow}}

  6. Re:Chinese people know... by BasilBrush · · Score: 2, Funny

    I didn't see any liberals defending or downplaying the evil regime of George W Bush. Yet, I did see Margret Thatcher defending and downplaying the evil regime of Pinochet.

    Looks like your observation was naive in the extreme.

  7. Re:But, but... by darthdavid · · Score: 4, Funny

    INT. SMALL WOODEN SHACK SOMEWHERE IN APPALACHIA - NIGHT

    BOBBY SUE enters stage right, catching BOBBY JOE at a makeshift workbench covered in sections of pipe, wires, and indeterminate objects.

    BOBBY SUE: Bobby Joe!! What're y'all doing with that pipe!?

    BOBBY JOE looks calmly at BOBBY SUE -- perhaps even seductively.

    BOBBY JOE: Gosh sis, don't worry I dun learn't a thing're two pipes.

    BOBBY SUE: Oh, Bobby Joe!

    BOBBY SUE licks her lips, briefly exposing her tooth before..

    FADE TO BLACK

    {{Bom chicka bow wow}}

    (Because we've had just as many terrorists of domestic extraction as we've had foreign ones. Turns out there's nuts willing to blow themselves up for a cause in every country...)

  8. Re:As long as we Americans keep buying made in Chi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sweet Zombie Jesus

    That's redundant.

  9. Re:Not Bush by russotto · · Score: 2, Funny

    At least Liu Xiaobo did more to earn his Nobel Peace Prize then just not being Bush.

    Heh, that was my thought too... I couldn't figure out why the Chinese government wouldn't want people to find out that Liu Xiaobo wasn't George W. Bush. I mean, surely, they knew that already.

  10. Re:As long as we Americans keep buying made in Chi by oldspewey · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can't even recall how many of those I've personally tossed myself... at least a dozen or so over the years.

    Dude, you're going to hell. You don't recycle?

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  11. Re:Chinese people know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Fucking sarcasm, how does it work?