Re:WeChat's App Revolution
by simonh on Thursday January 19, 2017 @04:10AM
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My wife is Chinese but has lived in the UK since 2001 and is a British citizen. In the early days she talked about us moving to China some day, but now feels much more at home here. She absolutely loves WeChat and uses it all the time. She uses it to keep in touch with old friends in China and new Chinese friends in the UK. It also keeps her connected to contemporary Chinese culture. So even outside China, WhatsApp's reach through the broader Chinese community is almost total.
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well if she doesn't mind reporting everything to Chinese government in that piece of spyware (you can't even launch it with blocked location permission) and have censored speech with deleted inappropriate Moments posts and PRIVATE communication, then it's nice app i guess
Maybe the US companies and government should have thought about that before making that behavior normal in the digital world.
In contrast to your sarcastic snark the normal behavior in the west is secure end-to-end encryption (iMessage, Whatsapp).
I don't see how a slight improvement primarily in the last two years after Snowden is "normal behavior"? WhatsApp ran without end-to-end encryption for six years, so did Gmail without SSL as the default. The industry and government has had two decades to impose "western values" through precedent, standards or legislation. Instead they chose short-term profits and intelligence operations. Users have few rights and even lower expectations.
Like if any app out there isn't reporting towards a government...
note: am not a WeChat advocate.
Re:WeChat's App Revolution
by narutouzumaki on Thursday January 19, 2017 @06:35AM
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I reckon you mean WeChat as well in your last sentence, not Whatsapp? Otherwise, please explain.