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Creator of China's Great Firewall Pelted With Shoes
Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian reports that Chinese police are seeking a man who said he threw eggs and shoes at the architect of China's 'great firewall', the world's most sophisticated and extensive online censorship system as his claims were cheered by many internet users, in a reflection of growing anger among them about increasingly stringent controls. The office of Fang Binxing, known as the father of the great firewall, denied the attack had happened, but Associated Press said police were sent to the university to investigate a shoe-throwing incident targeting Fang, citing an officer at the Luojiashan public security bureau. The Twitter user who claimed to have pelted him, who posts under the pseudonym @hanunyi, wrote: 'The egg missed the target. The first shoe hit the target. The second shoe was blocked by a man and a woman.' Earlier this year Fang closed a microblog within days of opening it after thousands of Chinese internet users left comments, almost all of them deriding him as 'a running dog for the government' and 'the enemy of netizens'. Meanwhile admirers of the shoe attacker showered the anonymous young man with promises of everything from Nike trainers to replace his lost footwear, to iPads, sex and jobs."
Pretty much the same Europe that spent years kissing Hitler's ass until his overwhelming appetite finally forced them to take up arms just barely before it was too late. Europe is good at doing nothing and criticizing others who do try to do something about some of the worse abuses in the world. I know I'm gonna get modded troll for this but I'm so sick of the constant bashing of the US by a bunch of elitist kiss asses who when they finally get their dick caught in the wringer want to cry for someone to save them. Sometimes I wish we had let Hitler run wild another year or two so maybe Europe would have gotten the lesson. We could have concentrated on Japan and let Europe and Russia squirm a bit longer.