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Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested for Group Chat"

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Re: Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested for Group Chat"

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Post by kumarm »

thewhitetulip wrote: post #11

This has already been happening in India under the current govt Any Anti PM post gets the Whatsapp admin arrested under National Security Act! Of course, there must be some stupid party supporter who probably had to file a case or something. This will be worse as it'll be automatic as China MITM's everything

Forget about PM, Even state leaders are abusing this and getting opposition sympathizers arrested in India for a while.

This abuse is most common in State of Andhra Pradesh (Whose chief minister claims he invested IT and claims to have influenced Satya Nadella enter into software :) ).

1. https://www.mirchi9.com/politics/one-case-abuse-ysrcp-social...

2. Another Arrest Video in local language (telugu): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osWZE0-cQ1g

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Post by colanderman »

_iyig wrote: post #22
dead_mall wrote: post #19

This makes me think of this Reddit meme I saw in the Gaming section, the gist of it: if you mentioned some specific chinese massacre in a game with chinese players, they would all leave the game.

There is a large copy-paste block with English and Chinese spellings of “Tibet, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989” that also frequently gets posted on sites like 4chan and YouTube to ward off Chinese commenters. I imagine it’s not very effective, however, since these sites are blocked on the Chinese Internet, so any Chinese users would by default be posting via an encrypted VPN.

That's… one of the more interesting things I've read today.

Re: Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested for Group Chat"

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Post by dev_dull »

astonex wrote: post #32
barkingtoad wrote: post #17

In the UK you can be arrested for teaching your girlfriend's pug to heil as a joke.

While the prosecution was dumb (it was clearly a joke), he did turn out to be a huge right wing racist anyway

Is it an American thing to not care if someone is a “______” when talking about their protected rights?
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