[Zhang Fei]

Basically a public service announcement to the effect that anyone using Wechat, even accounts outside of China, is getting his messages read by the Ministry of State Security.

[datura]

Tencent, the owner of WeChat is directly tied to the PLA.

[sockmonkey]

Just like here in the US by our Gov’t. Twitter, Instagram shadow ban people for wrong think.

[ifinnegan]

Emily Feng is a good reporter.

[Vigilanteman]

My mother insisted we read good books at suppertime when I was young. We took turns choosing them. She, most often, and sometimes father ate many a meal which was cold or needed warming up due to this custom. This was before the era of microwaves in every home.

Anyway, my sister chose a book written by a Chinese girl who had managed to escape to Hong Kong.

One particularly haunting chapter told of a woman who had been pronounced dead and was in a wood coffin awaiting cremation when she awoke.

She climbed out of the coffin and returned to her family. rather than welcoming her back, they told her the bureaucracy had listed her as dead, so there were no longer rations available for her. She went to the bureaucracy to try to get the situation reversed to no avail. One sympathetic bureaucrat tried to help (and was eventually the source of the story) but was slapped down by his superiors because the death had been "properly recorded". Totally discouraged, the woman went back to the crematory and got back in her coffin for the inevitable fate pronounced upon her.

[TBP]

Shut it down.

[dljordan]

“the Ministry of State Security. “

Over here we call it Facebook.

[grumpygresh]

It might be nice if they could hack US police state agencies. Then the people might be able to find out what’s going on.

[PGR88]

Try posting a picture of Winnie the Pooh on WeChat. It won’t last long

They have more censors than Facebook, Twitter and Instagram combined.