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    Instant Messaging in China - New Regulations?

    China intensifies crackdown on social media with curbs on instant messaging | World news | theguardian.com

    China has issued tough new rules for mobile instant messaging services such as WeChat, expanding an internet crackdown that has already muzzled microblogs and websites in what it called a bid to promote "true freedom of speech".
    The new requirements, published by the state news agency Xinhua, are to include real name registration and agreement by users to obey seven "bottom lines", including upholding the socialist system, social morality and authenticity of information. They also ban public accounts from republishing current affairs news unless they have specific licences to issue news.
    Service providers are required to suspend updates on accounts "that violate the user agreement" until they are fully closed and keep relevant records of violations and report them to the authorities.


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    Thoroughly depressing.

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    "Freedom of speech" and "rule of law": two English expressions that have been wholly misinterpreted in China.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HK_Katherine:
    Thoroughly depressing.
    But not surprising. Freedom of communication don't mix well with a communist authoritarian regime.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Claire ex-ax:
    "Freedom of speech" and "rule of law": two English expressions that have been wholly misinterpreted in China.
    Fixed it for you:

    "Freedom of speech" and "rule of law": two English expressions that have been wholly and intentionally misinterpreted in China.
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    I don't understand why people outside of China love WeChat. What does it offer over other alternatives?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Claire ex-ax:
    I don't understand why people outside of China love WeChat. What does it offer over other alternatives?
    One of those hipster things, I suspect.

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    Social morality? So no more sexting? F*cking killjoys.


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    >authenticity of information

    So writing 'it's raining cats and dogs' would land me in trouble?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Claire ex-ax:
    I don't understand why people outside of China love WeChat. What does it offer over other alternatives?
    That's always baffled me as well. I have it on my phone because I have friends on the mainland. It's not particularly good in my opinion, bog standard interface plus I constantly get spammed on it, quite often by WeChat itself.

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