Shanghai: video maker urges people to stop sharing film critical of Covid lockdown

Plea comes after Voices of April' spreads on social media as users get creative to bypass China's censors

The author of a viral video about Shanghai's Covid-19 lockdown that sparked a rare show of defiance on China's social media has urged users to stop sharing it, saying he worried about his work being taken in directions he did not wish to see.

The creator, who goes by his online moniker Strawberry Fields Forever, said in a post on Saturday that the quick spread of the video, titled Voices of April, was unexpected" to him, and he was touched" by messages received from fellow internet users.