China blocks microblogs for 'Jasmine Revolution'

Along with the Internet censorship, China has responded to the call for protests by reportedly detaining activists and increasing the number of police. As of Sunday evening, it appeared that no real protests had materialized.

Earlier this week, searches in Chinese for "Hillary" and "Hillary Clinton" were blocked 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.