{"id":35057,"date":"2022-02-07T12:01:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T12:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=35057"},"modified":"2022-02-07T12:01:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T12:01:45","slug":"chinese-free-speech-advocate-takes-aim-at-tencent-over-wechat-account-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=35057","title":{"rendered":"Chinese free speech advocate takes aim at Tencent over WeChat account shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA prominent academic has hit out at Chinese tech giant Tencent, accusing it of \u201ctrampling on civil rights\u201d after his sixth WeChat account was deleted last week.Peking University law professor He Weifang, a long-standing advocate for legal reform and speech rights in China, made the protest in a handwritten letter dated February 3 and circulated online.He said his sixth account, registered last month under the screen name \u201cOld Crane\u201d, was deleted in January by the operators of WeChat, also known\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3166139\/chinese-free-speech-advocate-takes-aim-tencent-over-wechat?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA prominent academic has hit out at Chinese tech giant Tencent, accusing it of \u201ctrampling on civil rights\u201d after his sixth WeChat account was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":35058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35057"}],"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=35057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}