News censored

So I'm looking at my personalized Google homepage right now, and it has a headline from BBC about some violence in Nepal that left 20 or so dead, but I keep getting a "server timeout" error. I found the article from the New York Times with no problem, but of course, it's buried beneath a lot of other news because Americans do not generally care about world events. I bet that if I VPN, I would be able to read the BBC article. Over my two weeks here, I will definitely be keeping my eyes out for other potential examples of the Chinese government exerting its muscle over Internet content.