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I don't use WeChat myself but it seems WeChat is the modern equivalent of sending mail into or inside the Soviet Union. You know it will be read by censors, but
by mantap 6y ago
I don't use WeChat myself but it seems WeChat is the modern equivalent of sending mail into or inside the Soviet Union. You know it will be read by censors, but what is the alternative? Not sending mail?
- plandis 6y ago> Not sending mail? Is sending physical mail / calling someone on the phone impossible in China?
- YetAnotherNick 6y agoThat is even easier to monitor, right?
- toomanybeersies 6y agoVoice calls are a slightly more "secure" alternative to text messaging. It's more resource intensive to store and analyse audio/video than text, and less accurate to boot. It's easier to run `SELECT * FROM messages where messages.body LIKE '%tiananmen square%'` than it is to run speech-to-text over bulk data and run the same search. Obviously that's a trivial example, but digital text (i.e. not handwritten) is always going to be easier to parse than speech.