12/10/2010

As if it never happened: Xiaobo's Nobel prize victory

Mao Democracy campaigners will have been delighted this week to learn that Liu Xiaobo has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to draw attention to China's woeful human rights record.

In China, however, you could be forgiven for thinking it had never happened.

Perhaps unsurprisingly in a country where a Google image search of the word "Tiananmen Square massacre" brings up pictures of smiling tourists giving thumbs up gestures under the imposing image of Chairman Mao, news of Xiaobo's award has been entirely absent Chinese television and web-pages.   From personal experience, websites I was unable to access in China included the BBC News website, EBay and, oddly, Napster. 

Click here to read about the John Garnaut from the Sydney Morning Herald's efforts to cover Xiaobo's award from "behind the Great Firewall of China"

By Daniel Hamilton.

Daniel Hamilton
By Daniel Hamilton
12 Oct 2010 10:34:54 | Mastering the Internet, Online privacy

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