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American WeChat Users Getting Banned For Celebrating Hong Kong Election Results

American WeChat Users Getting Banned For Celebrating Hong Kong Election Results

4 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191203/13030143498/american-wechat-users-getting-banned-celebrating-hong-kong-election-results.shtml

The recent election in Hong Kong may have scored some wins for pro-democracy candidates, but supporters of protesters and newly-elected candidates still aren't able to do much celebrating on social media. WeChat, the massively popular messaging app owned by China's Tencent, is apparently censoring posts and shutting down pro-democracy accounts.

That a Chinese company would censor pro-democracy messages is unsurprising. What's a bit more unexpected is Tencent's apparent willingness to shut down accounts owned by users in other countries, as Zoe Schiffer reports for The Verge.

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