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Russia orders state-backed Max messenger app to be pre-installed on new phones
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2025
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Russia is so late to this game, China didn't even need to force their app (WeChat) on everyone, people just download it themselves out of their own free will (well its mostly social peer pressure, but like its not illegal to refuse installing it), even the Chinese Diaspora overseas are using it.
The CCP literally has control of a microphone inside my house (family members using it), and they willingly installed it on their western phones, like its literally the main reason why they have a smartphone.
And funny enough, my brother said something bad about CCP in the living room (he's the anti-CCP one in my family) while parents are on their phones with Wechat on it. And also they said they (either my mother or father) were planning on visit mainland China like soon with my older brother for some personal matters, and um... yea best of luck lol, hope they don't mind his position of Taiwan.
Also the return trip is gonna be even more crazy. Because that's the US Customs and um.. if y'all have been watching US News... ๐ (And my father is not a US Citizen ๐). But nobody IRL is worried and its just bussiness as usual, they're acting like this is trump v1.0, "not a big dead"... yea... good luck, don't blame me for warning y'all.