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Re:On Growing: Lessons from the Story of WeChat by jsfitzsimmons on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @03:12PM (#14100805)
Does it have end to end encryption though? That's kind of a killer feature.
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Re:On Growing: Lessons from the Story of WeChat by xanderstrike on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @07:40PM (#14102763)
No it has built-in tools for sharing your messages with state actors.
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Re:On Growing: Lessons from the Story of WeChat by eric_h on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @05:14PM (#14101823)
Other posts here suggest that WeChat actively censors posts, including in private chat, at the behest of the government, so no.
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