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title: WeChat sucks
date: 2022-07-26
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WeChat is a instant messaging program by the Chinese technology giant
Tencent. It is insanely popular in Mainland China.
It sucks.
- WeChat's client program is [nonfree
software](https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary.html).
- Many of WeChat's features are [Service as a Software
Substitute](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html).
- WeChat's servers are nonfree; the service is centralized.
- Tencent suspends WeChat accounts for sending "politically sensitive
chats".
- Information collected by WeChat is given to the police of the PRC
without court warrants.
- etc.
Similar problems are present in other popular Instant Messaging services
such as [WhatsApp](https://stallman.org/whatsapp.html),
[Discord](https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord.html), Tencent
QQ, etc.
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