Originally posted by Bloodrage at 31-12-2020 03:44
Don't type the word Government in Wechat or criticize it. Your account would be highlighted for inspection. Keep low profile. White Youtuber who kept on reporting bad side of China get harassed by pol ...
Sorry, but everything in this post is wrong. It's the kind of stuff you read on CNN that doesn't actually exist in real life.
My mates and I have a massive chatroom on WeChat of almost 100+ people who talk politics 24/7. Some of it is pro-China, others definitely not. We've never had an issue, and 90% of the people in the chatroom live in mainland China.
There's always rumors swirling around about algorithms that will pick up on certain words in Chinese, but so far I've not heard of a single person who's fallen foul of this. And no one in our WeChat group has either.
Second, there's no such thing as a "social credit system", at least not in the way CNN is feeding it to you. If you're a business or you have loans and don't pay them, you get a bad mark on your credit score. That's the current extent of the system. There's rumors that it may go further, but so far nothing has been implemented on a national scale.
As for WeChat safety, here's what it comes down to:
If a WG or John gets caught in the act, then their WeChat history will be used as proof in court of their business deal. Even if you delete the chat, it doesn't matter, they will just pull the history from the servers.
Everyone knows this (at least all the professional WG) so they avoid talking too openly. Some risk it cause it's too hard to do business otherwise. Either way, your WeChat is a serious liability, but only if you're caught red-handed (or red-cocked rather). |
