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 .

    • 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.