China web users race to post censored video on lockdown troubles


Anger among residents in Shanghai has been building due to lack of access to food or medical care and sub-standard government rations, and there have been clashes with police over isolation centers opening near them. — Bloomberg

Chinese Internet users rallied to outwit government censors on a video documenting weeks of lockdown in Shanghai, flooding social media feeds as frustration continued to escalate over strict Covid Zero rules.

The six-minute video titled “The Sound of April” was posted on April 22 and soon got censored as it went viral. Chinese Wechat users then uploaded the film from different accounts and in various forms including upside-down and mirrored versions until late night, as newly-uploaded clips were also removed.

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