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I'm guessing you don't have many Chinese friends, if you do I would recommend asking them how important it is for them. It is an essential form of communicatio
by baron_harkonnen 6y ago
I'm guessing you don't have many Chinese friends, if you do I would recommend asking them how important it is for them.
It is an essential form of communication for the large community of Chinese citizens in the US. If you have any Chinese friends I can promise you their families are worried about how they are going to keep in touch. It's also heavily used for intra-US communication in various Chinese communities. In the NYC area there is almost an entire other city available to WeChat users.
It's a big, and I do believe intentional, 'fuck you' to the Chinese community.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 6y agoIt's a big pain, but surely they'll find another way to keep in touch, though? What do western people do in China to keep in touch with their families back home, when all the western social media apps are banned? It's hard for me to believe that a state-backed communications app is the only option available to Chinese expats.
- kelnos 6y agoI assume most expats living in China use VPNs to get around the blocks. The blocks are mainly there to keep Chinese citizens in line; from what I understand non-citizen residents seem to be mostly left alone, as long as they don't interfere with censorship and blocking intended for citizens.
- withinboredom 6y ago> What do western people do in China to keep in touch with their families back home, when all the western social media apps are banned? They change the country of their app store.
- fma 6y agoHuh? It's not just apps are banned from the store but you can't get out of the Great Firewall even if you have the apps.
- withinboredom 6y agoYou have to get the apps to use them, the rest is a VPN or something similar.