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For Wang Xiaoning, a political activist in Communist China, the fateful knock at the door came on September 1, 2002--an otherwise peaceful Sunday morning. According to the account provided by Luke O'Brien of Wired News, the phone rang that morning while Wang was working at his computer in the Beijing duplex he shared with his wife, Yu Ling, and their son. When Wang answered the phone, a voice on the other side asked simply: "Are you home?" When Wang answered, "Yes," the line went dead. Moments later, at least 10 agents of the communist state burst through his door in a violent raid. Confiscating his computer equipment, computer discs, written notes, manuscripts, and ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Internet crackdown: to do business in China, American companies have...