Cyber-activists have retaliated against Chinese authorities' censorship of foreign media websites by exposing an apparent weakness in the country's vast internet control apparatus.
China's massive internet censorship apparatus also swung into action on Monday as documents from the Mossack Fonseca database began to emerge.
Beijing's response has been to stonewall investigations and activate its robust Internet censorship apparatus, sanitizing online references to the case Chinese citizens might stumble across.
Beijing, despite boasting an immense army of online censors and perhaps the most sophisticated internet censorship apparatus on Earth, has been slow to react to the growing tide of online abuse.
The events surrounding the party congress magnify the constant challenge facing China's Internet security apparatus, which is to maintain the party's lock on political power without choking off a wired China from the global economy.
Reuters reported earlier this month that the Great Firewall, the term for China's internet censorship apparatus, had been "upgraded" with new capabilities.
Now, the anti-authority community of programmers and tech execs are gearing up for another fight against the NSA's top-secret Internet Snooping apparatus, PRISM, and there are some important lessons they could learn from their victorious predecessors.
Many were quick to label Obama a hypocrite after a string of expose's detailing the National Security Agency's massive phone and Internet spying apparatus, "It is the very sort of thing against which Mr. Obama once railed," wrote The New York Times editorial board in an uncharacteristically scathing OpEd.
Vermonters of a seemingly liberal bend, with grassroots armies of supporters and a robust Internet fundraising apparatus, seem to have a way of capturing the Democratic Party's heart.
Cellphone games and other apps fall under China's massive Internet censorship apparatus, which looks to only be getting more stringent.
