China Dictatorship (中国独裁统治)

18.1.4.1. Programthink (编程随想, Ruan Xiaohuan, 阮晓寰, programmer on GitHub)

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/编程随想的博客 (there is no English page as of January 2020)

Very popular Chinese language anonymous blogger that publishes software programming tutorials and political content since 2009, often negative about the CCP, in particular anti-censorship and anti-CCP-brainwashing.

He was likely arrested in 2021 according to an anonymous report to Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media), consistent with an abnormally long lack of posts:

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/667881.html. Contains a half censored ID photo. The last name is fully visible "马", and given name could be "勇康", "马勇康".
- https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/arrest-06142021121609.html original Radio Free Asia (RFA, 自由亚洲电台, USA government media) report
- https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/blogger-06152021111534.html official translation of report
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2021/06/translation-program-think-notorious-anonymous-chinese-blogger-feared-detained/ English report on China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)

In 2023, after 2 years of arbitrary detention, he was sentenced to 7 years, full name and photo came out, he is actually called Ruan Xiaohuan (阮晓寰), previous names were just wrong:

He was born in Fujian Province (辽宁省) in 1977. he served as the chief engineer of the information security system of the conference during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The blogging started in 2009. His wife’s family name is Bei (贝), given name undisclosed.

https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1731886110528251526 is one of the rare Chinese sources possibly about him.

https://twitter.com/evanli2020/status/1412305263248384000 speculates on how he was arrested.

Some people started wishing he will come back on comments: https://github.com/programthink/books/issues/96, Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的) left his at: https://github.com/programthink/books/issues/99.

https://program-think.blogspot.com/ The blog. Blocked in China with the rest of Blogspot:
- 2020 categorized summary of the best posts of all time: https://program-think.blogspot.com/2020/01/11-years-blogging.html
https://github.com/programthink
- https://github.com/programthink/zhao manually curated database of maps relationships between Chinese politicians, this was the first GitHub gov-takedown from china: https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/36e76c34682d2b52eef405ca6f57e1b9ddde3086/China/2016/2016-06-08-programthink-zhao.md, which specifically points to https://github.com/programthink/zhao/issues/38.
  
  geoscreenshot: 2020-09-30 https://github.com/programthink/zhao/issues/38 | https://archive.vn/QKCMi
  
  The full project name is: 太子党关系网络 (network of relations of CCP princelings).
  
  The project is also known as "zhao" which is another slang reference to "太子党": "赵家人" (zhaojiaren == zhao family): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_family | https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/趙家人zh, which is in turn a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_(state) or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Zhao.
https://twitter.com/programthink
DW coverage (Chinese): https://www.dw.com/zh/2013德国之声国际博客大赛中文提名博客揭晓/a-16716065 (archive)
Programthink has also shown interest in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (1984, 乔治·奥威尔一九八四, 1949) as mentioned in that section.

Mentions in other sections:

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Figure 217. Programthink uses Rodin’s The Thinker sculpture as its avatar, to encourage people to think for themselves rather than blindly believe the Party. Sources: GitHub images, . real world images. The other pages of the indictment can be seen at: https://twitter.com/EricLiu_USA/status/1638560342874923010.