{"id":20239,"date":"2021-09-07T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=20239"},"modified":"2021-09-07T14:00:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T14:00:15","slug":"tencent-draws-a-line-between-wechat-and-weixin-telling-users-to-choose-as-chinas-strict-new-data-laws-come-into-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=20239","title":{"rendered":"Tencent draws a line between WeChat and Weixin, telling users to choose as China\u2019s strict new data laws come into effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostWeChat, the ubiquitous messaging super app operated by Tencent Holdings, is asking users to choose between mainland China and overseas accounts, a move analysts say the social media giant is taking to comply with the country\u2019s increasingly stringent laws and regulations concerning data sovereignty and content censorship.Some users of Weixin, the Chinese name for WeChat used to refer to domestic accounts, who had foreign phone numbers attached to their accounts have received notifications asking\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3147880\/tencent-draws-line-between-wechat-and-weixin-telling-users-choose?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostWeChat, the ubiquitous messaging super app operated by Tencent Holdings, is asking users to choose between mainland China and overseas accounts, a move analysts&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20239"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}