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Is this surprising? I've known for a long time that WeChat chats and data could be read by the Chinese government, given that they censor the chats in real time
by yladiz 9y ago
Is this surprising? I've known for a long time that WeChat chats and data could be read by the Chinese government, given that they censor the chats in real time and the close ties between Tencent and Beijing. I guess it's nice to be confirmed but it was already a given considering it's a Chinese company.
- adventured 9y ago> given that they censor the chats in real time I've never used WeChat, that's interesting to me. How does the real-time censorship work exactly? If I attempt to discuss the Tiananmen Square massacre, would that chat message be instantly 'deleted' after sent (in however much time it takes for them to screen the message that is), something akin to that?
- Gaelan 9y agoI'd assume it's keyword based.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoYa, one major part of Chinese internet culture is making up new words to describe things whose normal words are harmonized (censored).
- macavity23 9y agoAt this point I think one has to assume there are more advanced machine-learning-based crawlers out there too. ML is very good at picking up 'anomalies'.
- eveningcoffee 9y agoIt is necessary to remind this to the people who do not take this as obvious.