Unwitting users of WeChat aid the app’s blacklisting of sensitive images
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#2abbridged: hash of an image, ocr to detect forbidden phrases, manual post-fact clsasification by contractors and:
"Image filtering only occurred when at least one of the chat participants had an account registered to a mainland Chinese number"
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#3After reading the article it seems to me that, contrary to the title, the users don't do anything to actively "aid" the built-in blacklisting in the app?
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#4Still not clear how users are 'helping' exactly? Seems like they just have their chats filtered. What am I missing?
This is a frustrating article to read. Every sentence and paragraph from the start to about 3/4 down just repeats the same information as is in the headline over and over again in a different format.
Re: Unwitting users of WeChat aid the app’s blacklisting of sensitive images
#5Still not clear how users are 'helping' exactly? Seems like they just have their chats filtered. What am I missing? This is a frustrating article to read. Every sentence and paragraph from the start to about 3/4 down just repeats the same information as is in the headline over and over again in a different format.
SCMP. An anti-China rag.
Re: Unwitting users of WeChat aid the app’s blacklisting of sensitive images
#6After reading the article it seems to me that, contrary to the title, the users don't do anything to actively "aid" the built-in blacklisting in the app?
Well, that's the meaning of "unwitting". I think the article is only saying that tencent collect (information on) the pictures shared by users through the service.
Re: Unwitting users of WeChat aid the app’s blacklisting of sensitive images
#7After reading the article it seems to me that, contrary to the title, the users don't do anything to actively "aid" the built-in blacklisting in the app?
Well, that's the meaning of "unwitting". I think the article is only saying that tencent collect (information on) the pictures shared by users through the service.
> that's the meaning of "unwitting".
No: they don‘t aid, period. They just use the service which uses blacklist technologies. That‘s all I see there.
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#8Users don't do anything because they don't care. Chinese people have the mentality that makes them think, I didn't do anything wrong so what am I afraid of?
Re: Unwitting users of WeChat aid the app’s blacklisting of sensitive images
#9Users don't do anything because they don't care. Chinese people have the mentality that makes them think, I didn't do anything wrong so what am I afraid of?
Good job on generalizing more than 1 billion people in one fell swoop, i.e. thrice the population of the US.
Re: Unwitting users of WeChat aid the app’s blacklisting of sensitive images
#10Still not clear how users are 'helping' exactly? Seems like they just have their chats filtered. What am I missing? This is a frustrating article to read. Every sentence and paragraph from the start to about 3/4 down just repeats the same information as is in the headline over and over again in a different format.
SCMP. An anti-China rag.
It's owned by Jack Ma.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1937256/alib...