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 .

  • 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.