‘Breach of the Big Silence’: Protests Stretch China’s Censorship to Its Limits

November 30, 2022

(New York Times) – Internet users are also flipping videos on their side, using filters on them or recording videos of videos — creative tactics that have tripped up algorithms designed to flag the content. Adding to the challenge for Chinese censors, the protests have shown that a growing number of Chinese people are using software to gain access to sites like Twitter and Instagram, which are blocked in China. Such foreign sites are beyond the reach of China’s officials, and can act as repositories for the videos, allowing them to be re-downloaded and reposted after they are deleted from the Chinese internet. (Read More)