Citizenlab, the part of Toronto University that looks into various aspects of the Internet has been into Chinese censorship for several months now. They have reports on various browsers that are being used too extract user data that goes way beyond anything we could forgive as part of a normal business operation. This is spying by any standard. The latest report looks at WeChat, the Chinese equivalent of Messenger looks to focus more on just censorship.
Let's be clear that WeChat is censored. What the report documents is how it is censored, the kinds of words that result in automatic censorship and the extent of censorship outside China - which, for a change, is somewhat different than inside. The types of censorship for this registered to telephone numbers outside of China does vary from that with telephone numbers inside. This seems odd since it would be easy to register with a number that was not really yours.
Anyway, you will find this an interesting read with lots of detail and thoroughness of reporting, typical of Citizenlab.
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