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What makes more sense, is it is a fabrication, a story for twitter clickbait.

Just because WeChat does numerous, dislikable things, doesn't mean they monitor passwords. Or did this.

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I even tried to change my name too FUCK CCP, and it went ok. But then I got into a problem:

https://imgur.com/a/JbUclhL

Is there like only one xi jingling in the whole china? If not, what at others supposed to do?

> Is there like only one xi jingling in the whole china? If not, what at others supposed to do?

Change their surnames

Others probably use Chinese characters, not a romanized version.

You might be right. Just to test I signed up for it, set it the exact same password, and 45 seconds is long past, but I don't appear to be banned.

I think the fact that she is a western journalist who speaks out against the CCP makes a reasonable explanation that her account is more 'watched' then the average account.

Well I would imagine they would just automate such thing?

And why would you do fuckery with a journalists password? Seems like especially stupid thing to do

What makes more sense, a platform known for censorship and asshatery censored someone, or a journalist who's income relies on her reputation made up a small largely non-story that won't earn her any money but will ruin her reputation if it's proved to be false?

One nice property of this largely non-story is it simply can’t be proven false; it doesn’t even come with any evidence.

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