[서울=뉴스핌] Reporter Choi Won-jin = It seems that access to the US audio social media platform’Clubhouse’ was blocked on the evening of the 8th in China.
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| The audio social media app’Club House’ and the Chinese flag. [사진=로이터 뉴스핌] |
On the 8th (local time), The Variety quoted the Hong Kong media, Bean Fruity, and Chinese users suffered access problems from 7 pm on the same day. This is because Weibo posts about the clubhouse access unavailable were poured out.
Clubhouse, which can only be downloaded from Apple’s App Store, is currently not accessible from the Chinese App Store.
The sales article for the’invitation code’ in the clubhouse chat room, which was sold on the e-commerce site Taobao, has also been deleted.
Some users say that a VPN can be used to access the clubhouse chat window, avoiding the so-called “Great Firewall” of China’s Internet surveillance and censorship, but the majority of Chinese people are illegal.
Clubhouse has recently gained great popularity when the CEO of Tesla Elon Musk appeared in the chat room of the platform.
Many Apple iPhone users in China started using Clubhouses, where they could avoid censorship by the Chinese government, leading to politically sensitive conversations such as Zau and Democracy, Xinjiang Uyghur camps, and the 1989 Tiananmen crisis.
In some chat rooms, communication between users in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong was also conducted. Some chat rooms are said to have exceeded the maximum limit of 5000 people.
With this popularity, observations have been made that the clubhouse will sooner or later be blocked by Chinese authorities.