Chinese Protestors are Flipping Videos and Using Filters to Evade Internet Police


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Chinese protestors angry with endless COVID restrictions have been flipping videos filmed on their phones and adding filters to avoid the government’s online censors. Ultra-rare protests broke out in cities across China last week, chaotic scenes show a sea of smartphones held up to record the dramatic events. But to get those videos online, users must avoid the government’s censors who want to prevent any sign of disobedience from reaching social media networks. China’s censorship apparatus is the most sophisticated of its kind in the world and deletes countless posts on social media of the protests. To get around the...