The bloggers of China have sent a very clear message to the world: in China, nobody has the right to censor David's nuts.
After several images of famous renaissance art was removed from Douban.com (some sort of Chinese IMDB knockoff) because the administrators feared that such images would be considered to be pornography.
Chinese webcitizens were outraged, so outraged that to protest this, bloggers started posting pictures of renaissance art with modern clothing on them.
After the firestorm, Douban.com eventually relented and reposted the content. And as overbearing as the websites actions may seem, this was not without merit: according to the AFP, government censors have shut down 1,635 websites and 200 blogs over a month-long period for content that "harms public morality."
Even in the face of this daring act of slapstick protest, Chinese dissidents shouldn't be getting too optimistic. With a UN review of China's human rights record due very soon, the AP has described China's on dissent to be "...firm as ever."
-Steve Kwan
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