Chinese censors are crippling access to the WeChat app for some users as part of a campaign to kill discussion of a rare protest in Beijing, an escalation in the Communist Party’s drive to cleanse the country’s internet of even the whiff of dissent
After images of banner condemning Xi Jinping circulate online, many were suspended from the do-everything app and face ‘digital death’
Two banners unfurled from a highway overpass in Beijing condemned Chinese President Xi Jinping and his strict Covid policies, in a rare display of defiance. The protest took place days before the expected extension of the leader’s tenure.
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