Dating apps and Telegram: How China protesters are defying authorities

Chinese protesters use foreign social media to avoid censorship

Chinese citizens opposing the zero-COVID policy restrictions are defying government censors by using foreign social media to let people know about their protests.

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Chinese protesters use dating apps to rail against Covid curbs

Protesters communicating via the most popular but highly censored WeChat app keep information to a bare minimum

Dating apps and Telegram: How China protesters are defying authorities

Chinese citizens have resorted to using dating apps and Telegram to share information on protests and anti-regime posts in a bid to avoid censorship amid Covid lockdown protests in over a dozen cities. Here's how they do it.

How Protesters In China Are Cleverly Defying Their Communist Government

On June 4, 1989, student-led dissenters gathered in a Chinese city and faced soldiers armed with assault rifles as tanks rolled toward them. The protests had started two months before as the communist People’s Republic of China dealt with economic and social issues sweeping the post-Mao nation. Communist China declared martial law days before, but that didn’t stop the anti-government demonstrators from coming back to the square.Moments later, so…

Dating apps and Telegram: How China protesters are defying authorities

BEIJING, Nov 29 (Reuters) – Opponents of China’s anti-COVID measures are resorting to dating apps and social media platforms blocked on the mainland to evade censors, spread the word about their defiance and strategy, in a high-tech game of cat and mouse with police.