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The newsworthy part of this story is that the censorship is extending beyond Chinese users. The journalists based in England were unable to find trending topics
by linkregister 7y ago
The newsworthy part of this story is that the censorship is extending beyond Chinese users. The journalists based in England were unable to find trending topics on Hong Kong. That is unprecedented for other popular social media platforms outside of China.
- yorwba 7y agoWhich article do you mean? Neither the Guardian nor the BBC article submitted originally show any indication of trying to verify their anonymous source beyond just asking the company for a statement. Citizen Lab does that kind of censorship analysis (e.g. https://citizenlab.ca/2019/06/censored-commemoration-chinese-live-streaming-platform-yy-focuses-censorship-june-4-memorials-activism-hong-kong/ https://citizenlab.ca/2019/06/censored-commemoration-chinese... ) but I can't find anything by them on TikTok.