Talk:Fang Binxing

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"The father of the Great Firewall of China (GFW) has signed up to six virtual private networks (VPNs) that he uses to access some of the websites he had originally helped block. "I have six VPNs on my home computer," says Fang Binxing, 50, president of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. "But I only try them to test which side wins: the GFW or the VPN.

"I'm not interested in reading messy information like some of that anti-government stuff."

There's a popular joke circulating the Chinese main land about Mark Zuckerberg's surprise visit to Beijing around Christmas last year: The frustrated Facebook president is said to have pleaded with local Chinese entrepreneurs to show him how to beat the Great Firewall.

"Ever since I landed here in China I can't log onto my Facebook account!" he tells them.

The joke might not be real, but the Great Firewall of China is very much alive, blocking the world's most popular websites including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and WikiLeaks.

Fang's handiwork brought down on him an intense barrage of online criticism in December when he opened a microblog on Sina.com."

Would someone add this content into the article?  Arilang   talk  10:23, 18 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I just added a good deal from what seems to be the original of that article, don't want to rely on one source too much though. Bienfuxia (talk) 12:39, 18 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Another good one:China's Great Firewall not secure enough, says creator Father of internet censorship system says people are using virtual private networks to look at banned websites  Arilang   talk  04:52, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

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