Program Think News Today

NYT: He was brilliant, quirky and private - and possibly an anonymous dissident blogger.

Also, fatal floods in China and other Asian countries.

As the Chinese government cracked down on online free expression over the last decade, blocking access to information, filtering content, surveilling users for social control, and unleashing malware disproportionately against its own people, there was one steady, anonymous voice on the internet...

For over a decade Ruan Xiaohuan’s blog covered politics and showed others how to evade China’s Great Firewall

In a country with over 100 journalists in jail, The Best is Yet to Come, based on a real-life journalist, Han Fudong, has been an unlikely success

China's freewheeling blog, Program Think suddenly went silent in 2021. Its Twitter and GitHub account went dormant. The author had promised followers never to stay inactive for more than 14 days. Many feared the blogger had been struck by an accident or illness, or tracked down and detained by authorities.

For 12 years, Program Think, an anonymous Chinese blogger, mounted an open challenge to Chinas tightening authoritarian grip and expanding surveillance state.