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Chinese Users Play Cat-And-Mouse With Censors Amid Protests

December 6, 2022 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

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Chinese Users Play Cat-And-Mouse With Censors Amid ProtestsThis story by Zen Soo is published in Associated Press. Here is an excerpt:

Videos of hundreds protesting in Shanghai started to appear on WeChat on Saturday night. Showing chants about removing COVID-19 restrictions and demanding freedom, they would stay up only a few minutes before being censored.

Elliot Wang, a 26-year-old in Beijing, was amazed.

“I started refreshing constantly, and saving videos, and taking screenshots of what I could before it got censored,” said Wang, who only agreed to be quoted using his English name, in fear of government retaliation. “A lot of my friends were sharing the videos of the protests in Shanghai. I shared them too, but they would get taken down quickly.”

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Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Asia, China, Dictatorships

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