Fang Binxing on Great Firewall “Incompetence”
Fang Binxing, the so-called “Father of the Great Firewall,” found himself in the...
Fang Binxing
Parent of the Week: Father of the Great Firewall
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Chinese Cyberchiefs Preach Net Sovereignty in Moscow
China’s Cyberczar Lu Wei and VPN-toting Great Firewall mastermind Fang Binxing were in Moscow on...
Fang Binxing Navigates Around Great Firewall
Recent foreign media coverage of Xi Jinping has led China’s internet censors to block news...
Father of the Great Firewall Retires
The Irish Times reports that Fang Binxing, the lead architect behind China’s “Great...
Fang Binxing’s Holiday Greetings Spurned
The chief architect of China’s notorious “Great Firewall” Fang Binxing had his New Year greetings flung back in his face by hostile Sina Weibo users. From Didi Kirsten Tatlow at IHT Rendezvous: Just how...
New Leftist Targeted in Shoe-Throwing Protest
A student at Hainan University hurled a shoe at prominent neo-Maoist Sima Nan after a lecture on Sunday, earning cheers from others in the audience. Global Voices’ Oiwan Lam translated the thrower’s introductory...
Government Blocks Encrypted Tunnels Through Great Firewall; Fang Binxing Talks Internet Sovereignty
Forbes reports that administrators of China’s Great Firewall Internet censorship system appear to be testing a new roadblock for encrypted connections which previously could access blocked websites: In the cat-and-mouse...
Cartoon: Fang Binxing Confronts the 404 Problem (Updated)
The following cartoon is being distributed on Chinese social media networks. It depicts Fang Binxing, President of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications who is also known as the Father of the Great Firewall, sitting...
Zhang Xiang: A Reply Letter to the Domestic Security Department
Zhang Xiang, an instructor in Computer Security at Xi’an University of Technology, wrote the following in response to threatening messages he received after discussing the Great Firewall in his class. Translated by CDT....
Fang Binxing Shoegate: Responses Within China
This photo shows one of the students who attended Fang Binxing’s now-notorious event yesterday at Wuhan University. Dr. Fang, the President of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, is known as the Father of...
Man Behind ‘Great Firewall of China’ Pelted with Eggs
Chinese microblog users have said that they participated in a protest against Fang Binxing, the “Father of the Great Firewall,” by pelting him with eggs during a visit to a university. The Telegraph reports: Four...
Fang Binxing Says Cost-cutting Measures are to Blame for Poor Internet Access
In recent weeks, Internet users in China have complained of increasing difficulty accessing overseas websites, in what many see as part of the ongoing crackdown on free expression. In the Global Times, Fang Binxing, the...
Fang Binxing To College Graduates: “Meld Your Own Growth With The Progress of Your Country”
Fang Binxing (方滨兴), president of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and the “Father of the Great Firewall,” exhorts a 2011 graduating class to assist China in stability preservation...
Father of China’s Great Firewall Discusses Being Persona Non Grata
From LA Times: The man known as the father of China’s so-called Great Firewall is defending his invention, which blocks out hundreds of thousands of foreign websites, and admits to owning software to evade the censorship...
Great Firewall Father Speaks Out
Fang Binxing, the creator of the Great Firewall censorship system, is interviewed by Global Times and reveals that he himself runs at least six VPNs to access the web beyond the GFW (though not to access “messy...
Wired Up
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof opened an account on Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblog service that, like Twitter, allows users to share short messages of up to 140 characters. Kristof began testing what topics would be...
‘Father’ of China’s Great Firewall Shouted Off Own Microblog
From The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report Blog: Translations of comments appearing on China Digital Times, a China-focused news blog run by the Berkeley China Internet Project out of the University of...
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