Chinese censors go low-tech to clamp down on Twitter

Obviously if the authorities visited “his house” they know who he is and where he lives. Be that as it may, he may not want to further broadcast who he is.

Twitter does a lot to de-anonymize people - like locking accounts until a phone number with a real name attached is provided. Then it also conplies with locally “legal” requests for user info. So any anonymity at Twitter is temporary & fragile.

And efficient states will often engage in the ‘minimum viable persecution’ to satisfy their goals. Not every agency may have deanonymized the account, not all may care about foreign-language coverage, and those that do may have considered the deletion of the account, while it was generally pseudonymous, a sufficient message.

But further complaints under a ‘real name’ – allowing further Chinese-language secondary coverage & fully de-anonymizing the account to the public – could easily draw further enforcement, from the same or other agencies.

Same in France.

Probably GDPR related. Many publishing sites aren't willing to bother for the EU.

See: https://outline.com/x43ECN

GDPR has been quite successful so far...

mods should probably start updating links which are not accessible in EU to outline.com or similar

How is that even slightly related?

GDPR. Welcome to the balkanization of the internet.

I wouldn’t categorize it as similar. Now, ceratainly it has a chilling effect, but they’re not asking the person to delete their tweets, but rather be careful not to “incite” as they might attribute violence to the tweeter. It has a chilling effect on free speech, but on the other hand the posts are not getting removed.

It's the nickname of this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Gan