Chinese Student Joins Discord Chat

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Discord crackdown

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How China’s internet police went from targeting bloggers to their followers

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Duan

used a virtual private network to jump over China ’s great firewall of internet censorship and download social media platform Discord .

In July , Duan and several other members of the Discord group, in cities thousands of miles apart, were called in for questioning by the police.

Duan was detained for 24 hours and interrogated about his relationship to Yang , his use of a VPN and comments that he’d made on Discord .

Being punished for comments made online is common in China , where the internet is tightly regulated.

Guangdong province said it had dealt with more than 1,000 cases of online rumours’ and “online trolls ’ this year .

Similar campaigns have been announced every year dating back to 2013 .

In 2019 , a man called Jiang Kun was sentenced to eight months in jail for posts on X, with the court noting that he followed certain anti-Chinese forces” on the platform.

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