As someone who knows people invited to tea with PRC police for wrong think as well as people, including myself who has problem with automated Google service bans, guess which one was easier to address? In comparison CCP seems downright pleasant to deal with, you typically get multiple warnings with human followup before even getting dragged into station to write insincere self criticism letter and then get on with your life. From article, looks like wechat is the same. Dealing with Google on the other hand has been nothing but and automated sisyphean void including the alleged "real human" TM support from paid Google One sub that still copy and pasted the same response about how they can't stop charging me for a service on an (actually two) account they banned. Like worse case scenario for losing wechat if one made Xi angry and being false-positived by Google AI shenanigans is getting new cell number and registering new account. Except in PRC, before getting to that point you might have chance to clear things up with a real live human, sometimes they even followup with you. I know I'm being flippant, but having dealt with CCP bureaucrats for years, and recently Google support, only mildly.