In the weeks after a video of a woman shackled by her neck in Jiangsu province went viral in February on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, Beijing censors went to work removing posts that threatened a widespread public backlash against government officials that some charged with not doing enough to curb human trafficking.

Chinese social media users are flocking to the decentralised Mastodon platform to find community amid crackdown at home 24HTECH.ASIA comes via ChinaTechNews.com.