not respond to a request for commenttelevision has also been affected international paralympic committee ipc president andrew parsons called for peace during his televised address at the opening of the paralympic winter games in beijing last week that part of his speech was not translated for the domestic audience by chinese state broadcaster cctv the ipc told reuters it had asked cctv about the matter but had not received a response cctv did not respond to a reuters request for commenton the other side of the debate some aggressively prowar or antiukrainian views have also been censored in china in the days following russias attack on ukraine some posts circulated making light of the situation for example by offering to take in young ukrainian women refugeesover the past two weeks weibo wechat and douyin the chinese version of tiktok have warned users against such jokes or spreading misinformationwechat made an appeal on feb 25 on its own platform for what it called rational discussion of the war noting that vulgar jokes had caused a huge negative influence onlinedouyin owned by bytedance has made several statements on its official wechat account over the last two weeks warning against jokes misinformation and other content that makes light of other peoples pain it said it had removed 6400 videos that violated its rules cut more than 1600 live feeds and deleted more than 12000 comments bytedance did not respond to reuters requests for commentweibo said it has suspended accounts for encouraging war on the weibo pages of some foreign embassies in china as well as requiring geolocation of users commenting on the war to prevent people from falsely claiming they are in ukraineon march 5 weibo said it had suspended more than 1000 accounts that published vulgar jokes and content that is overly insulting and warmongering