China blocks microblogs for 'Jasmine Revolution'

20.02.2011

Earlier this week, searches in Chinese for "Hillary" and "Hillary Clinton" on the Sina microblog. The move seemed to be in response to a speech U.S. Secretary of State Clinton gave calling for governments like China to end Internet censorship.

China has the world's largest Internet population at 457 million users. The country has 63 million microblog users, according to the China Internet Network Information Center.