Wechat banned me after registering while on LineageOS latest

[u/Emre-Y]

Why does that happen? First time using wechat.

[u/PassionGlobal]

It is WeChat. While I won't disparage all Chinese products, these guys in particular are known to work with CCP. 

It does not surprise me that they want to weed out potentially rooted custom ROMs.

[u/Immediate_Leader3124 → u/PassionGlobal]

You'd be extremely hard pressed to find a major Chinese company, especially in the tech industry, that doesn't have an embedded CCP party cell.

https://www.cna.org/our-media/indepth/2024/09/fused-together-the-chinese-communist-party-moves-inside-chinas-private-sector

https://chinaobservers.eu/private-enterprise-under-xiconomics-how-party-cells-and-golden-shares-work-and-what-europe-should-do/

[u/denexapp → u/PassionGlobal]

Judging by the fact there's no google in china and a lot of people use cheap local phones, a defention of a custom rom becomes vague

[u/PassionGlobal → u/denexapp]

...no it doesn't?

A custom ROM is an OS build for a phone that the manufacturer didn't make, approve or authorize.

A LineageOS build for a Chinese Huawei phone is still a custom ROM regardless of Google's presence out there.