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The official Z-Library blog https://z-library.se/blog/50 doesn't mention removal of any books or that they're blocking Mainland Chinese users/donations on their end.

I guess the "Zlibrary Official" WeChat account is run by people who were operating an unofficial mirror site (there's lots of these, many quite shady) and collected donations for their own use via Chinese payment methods, which has now gotten them into hot water.

It seems like they think they can continue operating as long as they remove a handful of books from the mirror, but I somewhat doubt it. The manual effort required for censorship compliance is likely to be substantial.

EDIT: the Internet Archive has a snapshot of the donations page http://web.archive.org/web/20240403051246/https://z-library.... with Alipay and WeChat Pay listed, so there must've been a money trail to someone in China. Maybe the WeChat Official Account is more official than I thought.