Recently, netizens discovered that a Bilibili video titled "Trump wants to be president for a third term, can the Constitution stop him?" reached 79,000 views, but is suspected of being silenced—with comments and bullet comments showing zero—due to allegations that it alludes to Xi Jinping's constitutional amendment.
Netizens discovered a baseball cap on Taobao printed with the characters "Cuiping," named after the character Wang Cuiping from the TV series "Lurking." Because the character "Cuiping" (翠) can be disassembled into "Xi Xi Su" (習習卒 - meaning Xi dies twice), it was used to allude to Xi Jinping, and the product was removed shortly after being discovered.
On October 24, netizens reported that sending words containing specific Chinese characters, such as 'xuexi niux', in Douyin comment sections was intercepted by the system with a violation warning.
On October 22, Sohu Auto was banned from posting by the platform for 15 days for publishing content related to an AITO vehicle explosion and fire, drawing public attention to automaker PR and speech control.
On October 21, a large number of netizens reported having their Moments features restricted, or even permanently banned, for posting sentences containing specific homophonic characters, such as "accustomed to the plain and uneventful days lately," in their WeChat Moments.
After several mainland netizens posted reflections containing specific homophones on WeChat Moments, their Moments feature was restricted until November 20 or their WeChat accounts were banned.
According to a tweet posted by X user @QuanLujun, content related to former CCP Central Committee General Secretary Hu Jintao can no longer be searched on the Chinese video platform Bilibili (B站). The user pointed out that Hu Jintao has been blocked on the internet behind the Great Firewall, and expressed concern over whether he will become a sensitive topic like June Fourth.
On October 8, foreign game streamer Horcus was invited by Douyin to take part in a Valorant exhibition match. After the room number leaked, someone slipped into the voice chat and repeatedly insulted Xi Jinping; the streamer on scene urgently called for them to be kicked. Afterwards, more than a dozen streamers had their channels banned.
Liu Kai, a 20-year-old college student in Beijing, used circumvention software to follow anti-CCP influencers on YouTube and downloaded videos to share with classmates. He was criminally detained by the Haidian Branch of the Beijing Public Security Bureau on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power.
On September 11, a Kuaishou streamer read out a statement twice during a live broadcast, publicly criticizing the Chinese Communist Party and Xi Jinping, and calling for an end to the one-party dictatorship through a non-violent, non-cooperative velvet revolution. About two and a half minutes later, the live stream was forcibly shut down.
On September 10, a netizen from Jiangsu posted a protest poster showing four bloggers with their mouths taped shut, protesting their permanent account bans for discussing sensitive political topics. Netizens in the comments section expressed their dissatisfaction, directly stating "We are hostages."
Around September 12, 2026, a livestream sales influencer with a large following publicly shouted “Xi Jinping step down” during a broadcast, and spoke about nonviolent civil disobedience and the Czech revolution that overthrew the Communist Party. When sensitive words were mentioned, the comment section of the livestream was immediately closed.
Bilibili user Chen Xiaohong posted a video arguing that government legitimacy should derive from the authorization of the people and free elections, opposing the one-party dictatorship under Xi Jinping's leadership, and calling for an end to one-party rule and the establishment of a constitutional democratic system; about one minute after the speech, the account was banned.
After QQ account "Forge Ahead Little Dog" reposted a Party media propaganda poster titled "A Grand Chapter of Prosperity" and posted loyalty messages such as "This prosperous age is as you wished," it immediately received a notice that the QQ account had been permanently frozen for allegedly spreading sensitive information.
CCP party media People's Daily published a message soliciting opinions from the public, but the comment section showed "no comments yet," with only the author allowed to comment, sparking netizen criticism of it as "fishing" and "solving the person who raises the problem."