China chastises cheeky chirpers with WeChat clampdown China’s censors appear to have turned their focus onto Tencent’s popular WeChat messaging platform, suspending and blocking several widely read public accounts in a bid to control online discussions. At least 12 accounts, some of which had hundreds of thousands of followers, were suspended last week and replaced with the …
They are not doing anything anything useful, for anybody, anywhere.
Unless you are a Fortune 2000 looking for cheap labo(u)r, or a pre-teen assembling iFads and kinda making enough money to keep the family almost solvent.
Or Tesla, of course ... Where else would you get all those batteries, without the government in question having issues with the gross pollution required to produce same.
...They are not doing anything anything useful, for anybody, anywhere....
On the contrary!
I am sure that our masters are watching their censorship and control actions closely, and are probably sending over teams to study their methods. I'll bet consultants from bodies like the Internet Watch Foundation are working closely with them.
What you see in China is coming to an ISP near you pretty rapidly. Justified by the need to save the children from pedophiles and terrorists....
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