A million-word novel got censored before it was even shared. Now Chinese users want answers.

The news was picked up by a few prominent accounts on July 11. It was the top topic on Weibo that day, with users questioning whether or not the system is protecting their privacy. Several other online novelists have had their drafts locked for unknown reasons, according to The Economic Observer.

There was a discussion about tech platform responsibility in China. The tension between Chinese users and tech companies was highlighted. Tom Nunlist is an analyst on China's cyber and data policy at the Beijing-based research group Trivium China.

While the document has been saved online and shared with an editor in the future, she says she was the only person to edit it this year. The content is clean and can be published on a website, but it should be locked. She wondered who gave it the right to decide what to do with private documents.

The Chinese software company Kingsoft released the first version of the software in 1989. Government grants and contracts have helped it as the Chinese government looks to bolster its own firms.