Shoe And Egg Attack On Father Of China’s Great Firewall Gets Wide Approval

May 232011
 

This photo shows one of the students who attended Fang Binxing’s now-notorious event last week at Wuhan University. Dr. Fang, the President of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, is known as the Father of the Great Firewall, and was pelted with eggs and shoes by students protesting Internet censorship. Photo taken by @hanunyi, the student who threw an egg and two shoes at Dr. Fang; one shoe hit its target.

There have been tens of thousands of tweets and micro-blog posts cheering the “Shoe” last weeks shoe event in which the father of the great firewall was pelted with eggs and a shoe.

The Telegraph newspaper  in the UK reported that “four students apparently sought out Mr Fang as he gave a talk at the Computer Sciences Department of Wuhan University in central China, pre-arming themselves with eggs purchased for the occasion at a nearby market, according to their own account on Twitter.

They then threw the eggs and a show while he was giving a lecture.

Since then the China Digital Times has translated some of the twitter comments that followed the attack:

, your mother is calling you to come back home to pick up your shoes!

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“Do As I Say Not As I Surf” The Great Firewall’s Creator And His VPNs

Feb 222011
 

The man known as the father of China’s “Great Firewall” is defending his creation but admits he uses six virtual private networks to get over it and to bypass the censors.

(For chinese netizens keen to avail themselves to the same wall busting techology click here)

The China Digital Times says that in a rare English-language newspaper interview published Friday, , president of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, told the state-owned Global Times that he owned six virtual private networks, or VPNs, to scale the firewall and determine what was and wasn’t accessible in China.

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The Father Of China’s “Great Firewall” Forced Off-line By Critics

Dec 232010
 

The so called “Father” of China’s vast internet censorship system found his own voice drowned out by the those targetted by his online child.

Fang Binxing, the 50-year-old president of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, tried to launch his own online micro blog website but was forced to close it down as it became inundated with online criticism of him and his work.

Many p0sted comment to his site using expletives in criticisms of his role in repressing free speech by his creation of the  “Great Firewall”.

Fang removed his microblog on the popular web portal Sina.com on Monday, just a few days after launching it, The Global Times said Wednesday.

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