V FOR VENDETTA
A legendary Chinese dissident blogger has suddenly fallen silent
For many Chinese internet users, it is not uncommon to see bloggers they follow fall out of their news feeds. Everyone guesses the reasons—censorship or pressure from authorities over critical remarks that crossed a red line. But the sudden silence of a legendary dissident blogger is raising the disheartening prospect that she or he may have been detained after years of evading the authorities.
Program-Think (编程随想) is the pseudonym of a blogger who has run a namesake blog since 2009 with hundreds of posts about techniques to bypass Chinese censorship, ways to resist state propaganda, and why supporters of a one-party state are essentially suffering Stockholm syndrome. In many posts, the blogger introduced basic political concepts, such as how to distinguish betwee
the Party and the state—whose boundary has become increasingly blurry under current leader Xi Jinping—while in others, they criticized Marxism-Leninism, the guiding philosophy of the Chinese political system. They’re also a big fan of the movie V for Vendetta, in which a masked activist rouses British citizens to resist fascism in a heavily surveiled future, judging on the blog.
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