Chinese social media to display user locations based on IP address

On Friday, many Chinese social platforms, including Quora-like Zhihu and

of TikTok, Douyin, revealed that they would soon show , a feature that users will be unable to stop.

The platforms said that the policy, which is not

, is intended to "prevent netizens from ." Other sites that have made the adjustment include TikTok owner ByteDance's Jinri Toutiao, Douyin Kuaishou, and Xiaohongshu, all of which have said that locations would be accessible on user profiles. According to Zhihu, China's most popular question-and-answer website, user locations will be posted beneath each post. Since announcing the move last month, Weibo has begun showing locations on user profiles, citing like as Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the Covid-19 outbreak.

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