I found this interesting. I wanted to test it a bit so I set my username to LeninLives and got it reset due to breaking community guidelines. I also set my profile bio to the same. Also got removed. Apparently I’m now banned from setting a profile description or username now, permanently, and my username has been reset and my profile bio removed.
So that’s uh…neat. I had heard that they go out of their way to aggressively censor any political messaging and I guess referring to Lenin counts? I was surprised honestly I don’t even think Reddit would ban you for that.
Anyone have any insight into this? Anyone else have any weird experiences like this on XHS already?
Moderation on Chinese social media is patchy and it’s going to depend on your luck a lot of the time. If someone doesn’t like what you have to say and believe it to be infringing on the rules, there’s not much you can do about it. Most people either self-censor or use slangs or homophone substitutes to bypass automated censorship filters.
Discussions about sensitive topics won’t be easily translatable to English because people write in pinyin initials or homophones and you almost have to be native Chinese speaker to be able to read them.