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 .

  • FidelCastro [he/him]M
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    3 years ago

    Reminder that WeChat != The Chinese Government. Unsurprisingly, the AP article is written in a way that insinuates they’re the same.

    Hopefully the Chinese government takes action against this company. They previously forced Weibo to unban LGBTQ+ accounts, so the chances are good.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Is there a source that talks about exactly what action the Chinese Government took against Tencent for the Weibo ban? All of the articles I can find about it say that they retracted it themselves.