On October 8, 2010, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Liu Xiaobo. It was the year of the Internet’s candidacy, that is of Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn and Tim Berners Lee, and at one point they seemed to be favorites, but the Oslo committee made the best choice. Liu Xiaobo was a writer, a professor, a civil rights activist who, after the riots in Tiananmen Square, was persecuted by the Chinese regime to death. When the announcement came from Oslo he was in prison; and there he also remained on December 10 of the same year when the Nobel...