![]() ![]() The Chinese tech giant Tencent, which owns WeChat, is under “a great deal of pressure” from Beijing to implement effective censorship tech, says Adam Segal, the director of the digital and cyberspace policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. The latter systems are also used on WeChat’s Moments to check and build the company’s dynamic blacklist. It’s a self-reinforcing system that’s growing with every image sent. So-called harmful content-including anything about international or domestic politics deemed undesirable by the Chinese Communist Party-will be sniffed out, removed from the conversation, and then added to that original hash index, which flags it for instant censorship from that moment onward. The image is then checked for visual similarity to other censored images. ![]() Using optical character recognition, the image is examined for text (sending screen shots of newspaper articles was once an easy way past censors). If the image isn’t instantly censored, it’s sent for automatic analysis. ![]()
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