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[–] Alphane_Moon 4 points 1 day ago

I was also curious about this (it's rather surprising news). This seems like tankie misinformation.

The only somewhat relevant source was this article in SCMP from Jan 17th where a Shanghai party official called from partial lifting of internet restrictions in some areas.

That being said, it doesn't look like this went over well:

It is not clear when the post was put online but it was removed on Friday morning.