上扭腰时报了,也上国内报纸了
Chinese Student Takes Aim, Literally, at Internet Regulator
By ANDREW JACOBS
Published: May 19, 2011
BEIJING — The authorities are seeking a college student who sneaked into a lecture hall at one of China’s most prestigious universities on Thursday and tossed eggs and shoes at a computer scientist both lionized and reviled as the architect of China’s strict Internet controls.
According to Twitter postings from a man claiming responsibility for the attack, the eggs missed, but at least one shoe hit its intended target: Fang Binxing, popularly described as “the father of the Great Firewall,” who was giving a talk on Internet security. The student, known for the moment only by his Twitter handle, @hanunyi, apparently fled the scene in bare feet.
Although there has been no official acknowledgment of the incident, The Associated Press quoted a local police official as saying that the case was under investigation.
The attack and its messy aftermath were described through postings by @hanunyi, as well as several other students who said they saw the assault, which took place at Wuhan University in central Hubei Province. At least three other people, encouraged by a Twitter posting announcing Mr. Fang’s lecture at the department of computer science, had planned to join the protest but bailed out at the last moment. “We saw our professor and graduate supervisor there and immediately lost courage,” one of them wrote on Twitter.
With his talk interrupted and the classroom in chaos, Mr. Fang appeared to have cut short his lecture and left for the airport.
In the hours that followed, a firestorm of approving sentiment ricocheted across the Chinese Internet — much of which was promptly deleted by censors. Postings hailed @hanunyi — a student at Huazhong University of Science and Technology — as a hero and promised all manner of recompense, from iPads and designer shoes to carnal rewards offered by admiring women of the sort that China’s Internet guardians would likely deem harmful to the nation’s morality.
“If you, the shoe thrower, get kicked out of school for this, my company will hire you in a minute,” said one anonymous posting on a Wuhan University student message board.
Beyond the audacity of the protest, the public gloating revealed the animus that many Chinese feel toward Mr. Fang, who has been unapologetic about his role in creating a system that bars access to tens of thousands of Web sites. While a great many blocked sites feature pornographic material, others, like YouTube and Facebook, are viewed by the authorities as potential vehicles for fomenting opposition to Communist Party rule.
Such strictures have grown tighter in recent months as China, with one eye on unrest in the Arab world, has sought to choke off any inkling of organized protest.
Mr. Fang, the president of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, has hailed Internet censorship as a necessary defense against Western governments and “democracy activists” who seek to harm China through incendiary information.
“They sit comfortably at home, thinking only of how, through their fingertips on a keyboard, they can bring chaos to China by taking advantage of the Internet’s effectiveness as a multiplier,” he said in a commencement speech this year. The students, according to published accounts of the address, responded with enthusiastic applause.
But Mr. Fang’s detractors, it seems, can be equally vocal. Last December, after a brief flirtation with microblogging, Mr. Fang closed his account on Sina.com after it was flooded with thousands of derisive comments. He has also been publicly roasted for admitting in an interview that he employed six different virtual private network services, or V.P.N.’s, to vault over the firewall he created — although he insists he uses them for research purposes. “I only try them to test which side wins,” he told The Global Times this year.
Although aggressive protests are rare in China, Xiao Qiang, an adjunct professor of journalism at University of California, Berkeley, said the shoe- and egg-tossing incident was not entirely surprising.
“The Great Firewall is state policy but Fang has become the face of system that frustrates and angers a growing number of Internet users,” Professor Xiao said. “In that sense, I guess you could say he was a fair target.”
Mia Li contributed research.
A version of this article appeared in print on May 20, 2011, on page A8 of the New York edition with the headline: Chinese Student Takes Aim, Literally, at Internet Regulator.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/world/asia/20china.html?_r=1
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北京邮电大学校长方滨兴在武大演讲被扔鞋
云南信息报 2011-05-20 09:12:44
新华报业网电 昨日上午,方滨兴将前往武汉大学参加一项学术活动的消息在微博迅速传开。有网民发帖称“下午方滨兴将出现在武汉大学计算机学院B座4楼”,很快一项“随手扔方校长解救中国互联网”的悬赏活动展开,扔中方滨兴的悬赏起初是10个VPN账号,随后又有淘宝网2000元订单、香港大餐、苏州园林套票,甚至美女香吻拥抱。不过,武汉大学官网却没有任何关于此事的消息。
下午,来自微博尚未证实的消息称,现场有人向方滨兴投掷鸡蛋未中,继而脱下鞋子,“第一支鞋打中了,第二只鞋被一男一女护住了”。微博称现场发生冲突,有十余人追出,准备抓住扔鞋的抗议者,但在学生的阻拦中,抗议者离开了现场。
随后有学生在微博称自己赶到计算机学院4楼时,发现有数名保安和师生“把守”。其透露16时30分,两名警察上楼,一群人围着方滨兴离去,戒备随之解除。
一名年轻男子在人人网介绍,当日计算机学院内部贴出的“863代表团考察”通知中丝毫没有提及方滨兴。这名青年称现场警戒森严无法进入会场,随后其在楼内手举“404 NOT FOUND”字样纸条留影。而据网络传言,方滨兴昨日下午的学术活动正在计算机大楼B404。
武汉大学计算机学院院办工作人员表示不了解情况。武汉大学党委宣传部一工作人员称其听说了此事,但具体采访需联系学校新闻中心,而一位曾姓教师说先前已有媒体询问,但新闻中心没有从院方收到方滨兴被扔鞋的消息。一位计算机学院教授表示方滨兴确实到武汉大学参加一项活动,但自己在外开会,不清楚情况,“武大学生不至于这样过激吧”。
截至今日凌晨,武大校方尚未对此回应,有媒体昨日采访到珞珈山派出所,一位不愿透露姓名的民警证实,下午民警被派往武汉大学调查方滨兴遭到扔鞋事件,当时方滨兴已经在赶往机场的路上。
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