26.1.3. Great Firewall (GFW, 防火长城)

Golden Shield Project:

And so, the spirit of Internet freedom that the Chinese themselves had at the start, was crushed:

越过长城
走向世界

Across the Great Wall, we can reach every corner in the world.

https://gist.github.com/yefuchs/4648713 "GFW Contributers" has a list of people that contributed to the GFW.

Source: the first International email sent from China in 1987 by Wang Yunfeng (王运丰) in the Beijing-based Institute for Computer Application (ICA) of the China Ordnance Industry Corporation under the Ministry of Machinery and Electronics of the People’s Republic of China (中华人民共和国机械电子工业部) to Werner Zorn from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_China.

终有一天,墙会倒塌。 然后我们会看到彼此的真实面目。
One day, the wall will fall. And then we will see one another for what we really are.