On february 9th, Chinese New Year's Eve, Fang Bin-xing, known in China as the father of the Great Firewall, wished his followers on Sina Weibo a happy Year of the Snake. As always whenever Mr Fang tweets, thousands of fellow micro-bloggers sent messages along the lines of "get lost". They could not reply directly: Mr Fang gets so much abuse for his role in engineering China's censorship technology that the "comments" function on his microblog page had to be disabled long ago. Nor can users easily find the comments on the 35,000 retweets of his new-year post: Sina has blocked access to those as well.
展开▼
