Previously, the government could use censorship mechanisms to control within China, so they didn’t need to. I’m also seeing people question whether some Twitter accounts, like the one belonging to “ Teacher Li ,” were undercover police. And people may realize who they are because of that. For example, if they work for the city of Guangzhuo, they will only care about what’s going to happen in Guangzhou.
And they are also only responsible for one locality, so it’s easier to tell who they are. They mostly work with WeChat and don’t use any VPN. According to my experience, the technology know-how of the police is relatively. It operates on a long-term basis, so it would be doing more information collection it has no responsibility to call off an event.īut the purpose of the Ministry of Public Security is to stop our events immediately. The people collecting information are mostly from the Ministry of State Security. What do they want to achieve by infiltrating these group chats?ĭifferent Chinese ministries have different jobs. It’s an evolving lesson that every new activist will have to learn. As the Chinese government’s surveillance capability grows, activists are forced to become tech experts to avoid being monitored. But many of these young people lack the technical knowledge to protect themselves when organizing or participating in public events. According to a Twitter account that’s been following what’s happened with the protesters, over 20 people have been detained in Beijing since December 18, four of them formally charged with the crime of “picking quarrels.” As the Wall Street Journal has reported, many of those arrested have been young women.įor the younger generation in China, the movement last year was an introduction to participating in civil disobedience. While action happened in many Chinese cities, it’s the Beijing police who have been consistently making new arrests, as recently as mid-January.
On a wholly different note, I’ve been preoccupied by the many Chinese individuals who remain in police custody after going into the streets in Beijing late last year to protest zero-covid policies.
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