Chinese social media giant WeChat shuts LGBT accounts
apnews.com
BANGKOK (AP) — China’s most popular social media service has deleted accounts on LGBT topics run by university students and nongovernment groups, prompting concern the ruling Communist Party is tightening control over gay and lesbian content.

I'm guessing this is true, which is disappointing. However, it doesn't mention any scope of these accounts though, so it's hard to say whether these were targeted for being LGBT accounts or if it's something else that got them banned.

EDIT: We'll see what the gov't does in response to this. Just read FidelCastro's comment, and remember the definition of critical support .

  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Remember, critical support means you don't want them to get wiped out by the US. You can absolutely call out AES for their terrible LGBT records.

    • HarryLime [any]
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      3 years ago

      Honestly, China was doing fairly well on LGBT and was moving in the right direction before this. This is a disappointing step backwards. I hope the LGBT groups fight back on this and win.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        It still is moving in the right direction. One company doing something shit doesn't change the trajectory of the change in social attitudes or acceptance among the people.

        There's no reason to assign everything any single company does to the entirety of China, just as you wouldn't say the entirety of America is shit and not improving on the lgbt front because of one company doing something shitty to lgbt people.

        • HarryLime [any]
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          3 years ago

          There’s no reason to assign everything any single company does to the entirety of China, just as you wouldn’t say the entirety of America is shit and not improving on the lgbt front because of one company doing something shitty to lgbt people.

          I'm absolutely not doing that. This article, and other things that have happened, made it sound like there might be a locus in the Party that wants to push back against the growing acceptance of LGBT in China, and that's the thing that I hoped the Chinese LGBT movement was going to push against and defeat.

          However, since I made the comment you're responding to, I learned that this whole article might be total bullshit, so disregard what I said before.

        • Ithorian [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          Eh this is a little different because of the strict government control of corporations in china. Its extremely unlikely that the party wasn't involved in this decision.

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            I think it'd be played out across all companies if it were. This is like when Hololive did some shit and everyone claimed that it was the Chinese government forcing them to when it was entirely Hololive's decision to be ridiculously over-aggressive on an issue.

            Even if it has come from government they literally promote LGBT inclusion on state media, if it did come from them it hasn't hasn't come through with the purpose being prejudice but other reasons.

      • SiskoDid2ThingsWrong [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        American queer on the internet saying “homophobia bad” is not going to give the USA Casus Belli

        I think you may have underestimated how hawkish and online Libs have become

          • SiskoDid2ThingsWrong [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            Seriously, this implies the USA govt is doing things because their citizens want them to,

            I mean if they genuinely didn’t give a fuck at all they wouldn’t bother with all the consent manufacturing now would they?

            Also I think a lot of the US does want war with China, mainly upper middle class people, lib and fash alike, cuz they don’t like brown people having international economic power.

              • SiskoDid2ThingsWrong [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                but they dont earnestly care if the war has board base support, and that’s been demonstrated time and time again

                Every US invasion ever was popular at the get go. Some fell out of popularity as they dragged on but the initial deployment was almost always done when there was greater than 50% support.

                Consent would actually need to be manufactured for that to work. None of us “consent” to China being invaded (not that that really matters our consent was always irrelevant.)

                I mostly agree and do think we should ignore it or down play it. It’s bad. But it can totally still feed into the consent manufacturing machine. Most Libs I know don’t want an invasion either, but still spread anti-China shot far and wide, their logic being that there’s zero chance america will actually invade and/or they have zero influence on that decision anyway. Thing is the propaganda is getting spread, doesn’t matter if the person spreading it yells till they’re blue in the face “I don’t support and invasion tho”, people just mentally edit out that part.

            • theunapologetictrans [she/her]
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              3 years ago

              I wouldn't call chinese brown. Like they would be white if that term wasn't exclusive to europeans. If anything Americans hate when yellow people have economic power.