“At midnight they can come into your room and take you away. They can put a black hood on you, take you to a secret place and interrogate you, trying to stop what you’re doing. They threaten people, your family, saying: 'Your children won’t find jobs.”

—  Ai Weiwei

2010-, China’s Censorship Can Never Defeat the Internet, 2012

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