Comments on: The Age Of The Intranet: WeChat Gets Its Weibo Moment http://beijingcream.com/2015/08/the-age-of-the-intranet-wechat-gets-its-weibo-moment/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Eurotrash http://beijingcream.com/2015/08/the-age-of-the-intranet-wechat-gets-its-weibo-moment/#comment-384651 Sun, 16 Aug 2015 17:39:09 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=27270#comment-384651 Red herring much?

]]> By: RhZ http://beijingcream.com/2015/08/the-age-of-the-intranet-wechat-gets-its-weibo-moment/#comment-384650 Sun, 16 Aug 2015 17:33:50 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=27270#comment-384650 *Everybody* does it, right?

Does *everybody* throw people in jail, without a judge or lawyer, based on a text message?

*Some* countries do…and some do not. All monitoring is not created equal. Eurotrash.

]]> By: Eurotrash http://beijingcream.com/2015/08/the-age-of-the-intranet-wechat-gets-its-weibo-moment/#comment-384629 Sun, 16 Aug 2015 06:43:55 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=27270#comment-384629 ALL social media is monitored, whether it’s in China or elsewhere.

]]> By: jixiang http://beijingcream.com/2015/08/the-age-of-the-intranet-wechat-gets-its-weibo-moment/#comment-384560 Fri, 14 Aug 2015 05:53:37 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=27270#comment-384560 Anyone who thinks that what they write on Weixin cannot be traced is fooling themselves. It’s a company based in China, so it’s obvious that it’s also monitored.

]]> By: insanshunas http://beijingcream.com/2015/08/the-age-of-the-intranet-wechat-gets-its-weibo-moment/#comment-384558 Fri, 14 Aug 2015 05:11:27 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=27270#comment-384558 Weixin censorship has been well underway for quite some time in Xinjiang, where for the last year there have been regular stories about people disappearing because of sensitive (usually religious) messages they posted or forwarded or just happened to save to Favorites. Some workplaces and institutes of higher education are rumored to have special satellites set up to intercept and read all messages sent within campus grounds, and police can jump in swiftly to punish anyone deemed to be sharing things that are “improper.” Weixin has gotten to be such a serious and punishable issue in southern Xinjiang (especially for Uyghur men, who are routinely seen as the most dangerous by certain governing bodies) that there is a revived market for old Nokias and other “dumb phones,” which provide ways of circumventing intrusive Weixin checks on smartphones when going through any one of the myriad checkpoints one can encounter in the south.

]]> By: Leon http://beijingcream.com/2015/08/the-age-of-the-intranet-wechat-gets-its-weibo-moment/#comment-384543 Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:15:14 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=27270#comment-384543 People should not get too used to this “uncensored” information circulating on WeChat imo. This recent move shows that something is about to be done:
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-setting-up-cybersecurity-police-stations-at-major-internet-companies-so-they-can-crack-down-on-illegal-internet-behavior-2015-8

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