{"id":43812,"date":"2022-04-23T06:30:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T21:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/22\/sound-of-april-chinese-netizens-get-creative-to-keep-censored-film-in-circulation"},"modified":"2022-04-23T23:25:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T14:25:35","slug":"voice-of-april-chinese-netizens-get-creative-to-keep-censored-film-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43812","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai: video maker urges people to stop sharing film critical of Covid lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plea comes after \u2018Voices of April\u2019 spreads on social media as users get creative to bypass China\u2019s censors<\/p>\n<p>The author of a viral video about Shanghai\u2019s Covid-19 lockdown that sparked a rare show of defiance on China\u2019s social media has urged users to stop sharing it, saying he worried about his work being taken in directions he did not wish to see.<\/p>\n<p>The creator, who goes by his online moniker Strawberry Fields Forever, said in a post on Saturday that the quick spread of the video, titled Voices of April, was \u201cunexpected\u201d to him, and he was \u201ctouched\u201d by messages received from fellow internet users.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/22\/sound-of-april-chinese-netizens-get-creative-to-keep-censored-film-in-circulation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plea comes after \u2018Voices of April\u2019 spreads on social media as users get creative to bypass China\u2019s censorsThe author of a viral video about Shanghai\u2019s Covid-19 lockdown that sparked a rare show of defiance on China\u2019s social media has urged users to sto&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1066,235,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-social-media","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43836,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43812\/revisions\/43836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}