Translation: Clubhouse Blocked in China; Anticipation and Reactions
Posted by John Chan | Feb 8, 2021
Over the past several days, Chinese internet users rushed to join Clubhouse, an invite-only audio-based social networking app. For a fleeting few days, users on the platform from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and farther afield used the app to engage in uncensored cross-border dialogue, and set up “rooms” to discuss taboo, intimate, and political sensitive issues ranging from the Tiananmen Massacre to gender identity, Taiwan independence, the Hong Kong protests, the concentration camps in Xinjiang, and more. Some users set up a silent room to commemorate Dr. Li Wenliang, the whistleblower doctor who died one year ago Sunday.