WeChat QR codes are displayed at a grocery store.Messaging, however, is still a huge part of WeChat's usage. In China, you don't take down someone's phone number or receive a business card. Instead, you scan their WeChat QR code.
American tech giants have followed in WeChat's footsteps in some ways. Facebook began turning its Messenger app into a platform for accessing apps like Uber and sending money to friends in 2016. Apple has also integrated similar functionality into its iMessage app around the same time. The iPhone maker also just announced a new feature in June called App Clips, which will let you access services by pointing your phone at or scanning QR codes on objects in the real world.FILE PHOTO: A picture illustration shows a WeChat app icon in BeijingAs WeChat has grown in popularity, so have concerns about it being used for government surveillance in China.
In June 2019, BBC reporter Stephen McDonell wrote about how he had been locked out of his WeChat account after posting photos from a vigil held in Hong Kong to commemorate the 30-year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Afrom 2017 detailed how Chinese authorities snoop on WeChat texts to spot blacklisted words and images.
Back in 2015, the Toronto-based Internet research lab Citizen Lab found that 4% of the 36,000 WeChat posts it examined had been censored, according to The Journal. Citizen Lab has since published
Why does it matter if an app used by another country is banned here in the US?
Trump is an American and he cares for his people unlike Muslim Obama who turned a blind eye to crimes of China.
I am a Chinese,without wechat we cant live comfortably and conveniently。 using VPN,I use ins to follow my favorite actresses and professional knowledge,use twitter to directly understand foreign news and interesting things,but Facebook rarely use。 but us cant use VPN
If the stupid American doesn't know the fact that China has already purged all American's APPs ( Google, Gmail, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Flickr, Dropbox, iDrive, ,,, )for many years ? Please shut up !
Interesting, considering this platform is largely unused or unheard of by most Americans.
Facebook ,Google is banned in China since the beginning.Tit for Tat ,long due !
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