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Comment Bo Xilai is a blocked word (Score 3, Informative) 101

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303812904577295462500007558.html

For several days after his ouster, censors took a hands-off approach to online gossip, letting speculation flow freely. That changed this week as popular microblogging site Sina Weibo reinstated an earlier block on searches for Mr. Bo's name and additionally blocked a wide range of user-invented code words for Mr. Bo, including the term "not thick"—a play on Mr. Bo's surname, which means "thin." Searches for Mr. Bo's name, "not thick" and other related terms were also blocked on Tencent Weibo, another of China's popular microblogging sites, which often impose their own blocks in anticipation of what the government will deem sensitive.

Comment Department of Energy (Score 1) 279

Last November a bipartisan group of 24 senators sent a letter to President Obama urging him to approve continued funding through 2013 for the Department of Energy’s exascale computing initiative

Can't believe a candidate for the GOP nomination ran on a promise to terminate the department of energy...Do these guys even know what the DoE does?

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