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> If you want to reach out to someone in China, you have to use a Chinese company's app If you want to talk to someone in China, you have to use WeChat and hav
by throwaway2474 6y ago
> If you want to reach out to someone in China, you have to use a Chinese company's app
If you want to talk to someone in China, you have to use WeChat and have your entire conversation mined by the CCP. There’s no encryption and no alternative. The writing has been on the wall for years that the US will be left with no choice but to blacklist Chinese apps in the same manner.
- bayesian_horse 6y agoAs far as I understand it, WeChat is less useful as a means of disseminating misinformation or other social media manipulation, whereas the problem with TikTok is less about potential surveillance. Thus it may make more sense to ban TikTok than WeChat. And always assume the CCP is listening to unencrypted communication. In fact, they are probably mining our comments in Hacker News.