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How protesters in China bypass online censorship to express dissent

After weeks of protests, officials in China are loosening the country's notoriously strict anti-COVID measures. How did protestors succeed despite heavy online censorship?
Sheets of blank white paper have become a symbol for social media censorship in China.

Although protests in China have now successfully convinced government officials to loosen enforced COVID-19 restrictions, anybody expressing their dissent in person or online has had to do so while navigating their country's notoriously strict censors.

After a deadly apartment fire in the city of Urumqi left at least 10 dead in late November, many questioned whether long-standing , which became a national conversation about the

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