this is truly phucked up prc.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/m/c3b39556-98a8-3776-bef8-017f41c2f935/china’s-internet-platforms.html
China’s internet platforms are revealing user location—and embarrassing nationalist bloggers
China’s internet platforms are revealing user location—and embarrassing nationalist bloggers
Jane Li
Thu, May 12, 2022, 2:43 AM
After a number of Chinese social media platforms began displaying user locations drawn from internet protocol addresses, it turned out some of the country’s most nationalistic online figures share one thing in common:
They are all abroad. The reveal led many to mock the influencers for their so-called “offshore patriotism,” a term used for those who aggressively defend China from the comfort of their foreign residences. “To be anti US is [their] work, and going to live in the US is [their] real life,” said a user on China’s Twitter-like Weibo.