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So what’s the big deal about WeChat that it gets banned? - Speedy - 09-20-2020
We Chat, They Watch
How International Users Unwittingly Build up WeChat’s Chinese Censorship Apparatus
https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/we-chat-they-watch/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/18/wechat-ban-is-difficult-necessary-step-toward-openness-china/
Re: So what’s the big deal about WeChat that it gets banned? - sekker - 09-20-2020
I'm assuming everything on WeChat is sent to the Chinese government.
I'm ok with the ban.
Re: So what’s the big deal about WeChat that it gets banned? - Rolando - 09-20-2020
I'm ok with it, because as much as I dislike while still using Facebook and their model, at least its American and open to the world.
Any internet that ONLY China can control is a bad one. Tell China they can have TikTok here when Facebook, Google and the rest are available there...
https://stratechery.com/2020/india-jio-and-the-four-internets/
Re: So what’s the big deal about WeChat that it gets banned? - SteveO - 09-20-2020
Keep in mind it also makes yet another convenient "news diversion" to take the spotlight off all of Dump's other scandals, grafts and failures. He is a master at making all these go away with a simple tweet.
Re: So what’s the big deal about WeChat that it gets banned? - vision63 - 09-21-2020
f**k the Trump administration and their agenda. I won't give them a sliver of political capitol. WeChat, TikTok etcetera can be better dealt with when we get a semblance of the true scope of the problem. We need sober untainted eyeballs not seeking to traitoriously politicize every detail of engagement.