Jasmine Revolution Blocked in China

China has blocked the words or terms “Jasmine Revolution” on its popular search engines. The banning of the use and censorship of Jasmine Revolution included posting the words in a Chinese social networking site.

Mention of a “Jasmine Revolution” appear to have begun on the Web, telling Chinese users to demonstrate in 13 cities across the country, including the capital Beijing. The call for the demonstrations seem to be inspired by the anti-government protests in Egypt and Tunisia, but it’s unclear who or what group started it. A Chinese site at Boxun.com was reportedly the first to post the call to protest.

There are more. Sina microblog and others had blocked searches for the word “Egypt”. Also, early in the week, searches in Chinese for “Hillary” and “Hillary Clinton” were blocked.

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