China Blocks Internet Searches for the Word ‘Egypt’
- Posted on January 31, 2011 at 6:05pm by
Mike Opelka
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Reports are breaking out of China that the government has blocked internet searches for the word “Egypt” using Chinese characters. You can still search using English characters, but Chinese language searches have been blocked. Apparently there is concern that Egypt‘s uprising might put the stability of China’s regime at risk.
For the record, Facebook and Twitter are already blocked by the Chinese government, but citizens are permitted to use Sina.com’s messaging service Weibo. It is on Weibo that “Egypt” is currently considered a no-no.
"Egypt" in Chinese symbols, currently blocked from search engines.
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Rob_M
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 12:17pmChina’s own people are a powder keg. They are beginning to wonder if china is so rich and doing so well why are they seeing nothing from it? China is trying to keep them under foot or imagine egypt protests x100.
Report Post »B-Neil
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:50pmPresident Obama! What kind of friend did you say China was?? If there that way to there People, I don’t want them to be my friend. Then again I don’t like Communizm like you do…..Carry on McDuff
Report Post »dadsrootbeer
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:25pmThat’s right Obammy. Keep doing record business with the devil.
Report Post »bukowski72
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:13pmGuess who agrees with China?
Murdoch: ‘Great companies’ don’t mind Chinese censorship
“Cavuto pressed on, wondering if, News Corp.’s interests aside, Murdoch thought U.S. companies ought to be helping a totalitarian government crack down on free speech. Murdoch: “I don’t object to that.
Well, certainly you can’t expect it when your own “great company” notoriously made its own kowtow to Beijing, pulling BBC News from Star TV in order to get the satellite channel into China. More recently, News Corp. empowered serious censorship with its launch of MySpace China; the site, in which News Corp. owns a minority stake, prohibits chatter about politically sensitive topics and encourages users to inform on one another.”
http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-news/murdoch-great-companies-dont-mind-chinese-censorship/19060881/
Report Post »historypaper
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:10pmGo to Google and type in Obamacare and you get pictures of Egypt.
Report Post »historypaper
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:09pmObama, Why do your friends in China block the truth while at the same time Egypt burns and you’re trying your best to grab power over the internet? Obama, who’s really the dictator?
Report Post »VISITORNUMBER3
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:46pmThis sort of thing will happen here, too. Just wait…
Report Post »Shane the Golden
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 12:37pmDon’t these useful idiots know that once the REALLY bad guys get into power, they will be the first to go? Ask the Bolsheviks that overthrew the Russian Royal Government and then in turn were executed….
Report Post »Just saying…
EqualJustice
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 12:23pmThat’s what Obama does; manipulates SEARCHES?
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 12:28pmA few examples:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/01/obama_administration_pays_to_b.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/01/taxpayer_dollars_used_to_game.html
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/04/democrats-wall-street-google-goldman-sachs-sec-obama-mary-schapiro.html
Report Post »Ben41281
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 12:15pmAh and what does our government here in the U.S.A want? A kill switch so they can cut off the internet in an “emergency”. Boy our government has more in common with the dictators in Egypt and China, then most are willing to admit!
Report Post »momsense
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:54amHey China–be afraid, be very afraid!
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:17amHey! Let’s do the same thing here! Oh wait…
Report Post »ObliviouslyAware
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 4:41amD@#$ Bruta! China… You want to kill off your people, do what China does…
Report Post »Internet restriction IS a crime against humanity. Communications = Free Press
iamDonJuantino
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 4:41amI guess they don’t want the 1BILLION, plus that are living poorly, in China, to get any ideas!
Report Post »Workforit
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 12:54amAnd why am I not surprised…
Report Post »jbl8199
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:00pmBecause it’s China. Would you expect anything else from a communist nation?
Report Post »stephenb0
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 12:40amthis is what obama wants to do here
that is just not freedom
Report Post »bechlerbuff
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:44amI’m with ya! But I wouldn’t blame just Barry. I would more go for the THEM that is telling Barry what to do and say. Barry is just a front man, a face for people to blame. THEY want all governments around the world to crash and all the citizens to get mad and go crazy. This is how a NWO will be started.
Report Post »crystalinwi
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 12:36amof course they do
Report Post »dataway
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 12:34amWell Big Brother seems to be alive in all the world. How cozy.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:24amMy wife (who was born in China) found out more about her country since moving to NZ than she ever knew while growing up in China.
She told me that the news clips of the Tianamin Square and other documentaries we’ve watched on television would never have been shown there.
Incidentally, the last of the Tianamin Square leaders were executed about the middle of last year…..
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:37am@nzkiwi:
“Incidentally, the last of the Tianamin Square leaders were executed about the middle of last year…..”
Report Post »_____________
OMG…hardly “incidental”…see…this wasn’t a major story here, was it?
Doctor of Truth
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 8:45amWhy would the Chinese people need to know anything about Africa? They would not be allowed to go there any way.
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