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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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  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. 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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  4. 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}}

  5. 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...)