WashingtonPost:The mystery of Falun Gong
May 21st 2010 12:55
By David Matas
International human rights lawyer
Last year, as millions of Iranians flocked online to tell stories of political repression and police violence, the world was introduced to an unlikely champion in the fight for freedom of information online: the spiritual practice Falun Gong. American practitioners of Falun Gong, it turned out, had spent nearly a decade developing and refining the most effective and widely used anti-censorship software in the world -- software that has been instrumental in the free flow of information to and from closed societies.
Who are Falun Gong and what drove them to build anti-censorship software?
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International human rights lawyer
Last year, as millions of Iranians flocked online to tell stories of political repression and police violence, the world was introduced to an unlikely champion in the fight for freedom of information online: the spiritual practice Falun Gong. American practitioners of Falun Gong, it turned out, had spent nearly a decade developing and refining the most effective and widely used anti-censorship software in the world -- software that has been instrumental in the free flow of information to and from closed societies.
Who are Falun Gong and what drove them to build anti-censorship software?
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