Whistleblowing

Super-leaker Snowden punts free PDF* of tell-all NSA book with censored parts about China restored, underlined

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has released a free, uncensored version of his autobiography for Chinese readers – after Beijing's censors scribbled out all the parts mentioning the Great Firewall in the official version.

Snowden's bestseller Permanent Record is now available as a free download in Chinese after Communist Party censors cut out all the parts of the former IT admin's memoir referring to China's Great Firewall censorship system. The Great Firewall is one of the main means, in the digital era, by which the party maintains its iron grip on the world's most populous nation's internet viewing.

Thumbing his nose at the communists, Snowden has today released a 400-page PDF of the entire book – complete with the deleted sections restored and underlined so ordinary Chinese can see precisely what their ruling class doesn't want them to read about.