• xijinpingist [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Our entire lives are on wechat already. The US government freaking out about it means it’s secure. From the NSA, that is. It’s probably better than Signal at this point. The CPC don’t care about individual Americans who don’t speak Chinese and who don’t talk to Chinese people.

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        Everyone’s entire life is on Wechat. It started life as an add your friends and send photos and texts app but now it rules your life. 100% your whole chat log is archived and analyzed by AI. I only ever worked for folding money so despite everything in their records they can’t prove I ever took money. I know a man who got deported because he took mobile payments. Another I heard about got busted because he stupidly marked his workplace as “work” on his map app and took a Didi there every day. When he said he was legal the cops held up his phone and said, why’s this say it’s your work? I tried adding APKs and my Xiaomi 15 auto-blocked them on security grounds. I was able to disable it and install them but at the bar there’s a Huawei tablet I cannot get to play MP3s. Streaming only, which sucks.