DIFFERENT: The censorship on WeChat is unique because of the nature of the service, which often collates posts from elsewhere and which Citizen Lab says are often "more typical of sensationalism or tabloid gossip."
BEIJING: Censorship is ever-present on China's Internet, but on Tencent Holding Ltd's mobile social network WeChat the kinds of posts culled often differ from elsewhere, according to a study, the first of its kind.
The usual taboo subjects of calls for protests or collective action, the violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests around Tiananmen Square in June 1989, corruption and senior politicians were frequently censored, said the report by the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab.
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