The censor cannot hold: the pressure of controlling China's internet

San Jose, United States (AFP) Oct 6, 2022

As a teenager in rural China, Zeng Jiajun used his internet know-how to watch a banned documentary on the bloody military crackdown in Tiananmen Square. A decade later, he was part of the sprawling censorship machine that suffocates China's cyberspace, tasked with stopping the spread of anything the Communist Party does not want its people to know about. "At first when I worked on this I