Tag: Bill Xia

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Digital Weapons Help Dissidents Punch Holes in China’s Great Firewall

Wired Magazine profiles Alan Huang and other software engineers who are building the tools to help Chinese netizens climb over the Great Firewall: Huang has hunched shoulders and a round face thatched with bushy black hair; his bashful mien occasionally retreats into a nervous giggle. He’s no charismatic revolutionary. But by 2002, he had assembled a dozen like-minded Falun Gong-practicing colleag