The policy could and should be adjusted to avoid causing harm to people whose gender expression doesn’t fit into a clear binary.
It is. The habit of forcing media personalities to undergo surgery and "look white" in order to climb the media ladder is harming people who fail to fit that model.
Additionally, this isn’t the first time media censors in China have clamped down harder on LGBT-related media than other media.
When femininity is deliberately coded as white and western by Hong Kong based media syndicates and advertisers, the effort to decouple and de-capitalize an industry that's built on injecting crass consumerism into every facet of local life.
China’s multimedia censorship programs do have and have had problems surrounding LGBT issues
Other banned content includes prolonged or provocative kissing scenes and the defamation of national heroes.
This is definitely prudish, but a far cry from reactionary. It appears as though the effort is focused primarily on preserving the character of post-revolutionary Chinese society and defending against foreign efforts to interject subversive attitudes into public media. Indeed...
Yet censorship is a persistent problem. In 2015, Fan sued SAPPRFT over whether the administration had issued a notice instructing web platforms to ban his documentary, “Mama Rainbow,” from online streaming. The court ruled that SAPPRFT had not sent such a directive.
Statements like this suggest the reactionary attitudes are likely a consequence of privately run online services censoring content due to the views of the administrators. A chud run movie theater in the States might refuse to screen Brokeback Mountain or Clear Channel might pull Dixie Chicks off the airwaves because she spoke ill of the President. That isn't indicative of a state party problem, but a systemic cultural bias that needs to be confronted by the next generation of media users and producers.
Founded on August 19, 2011, it now has more than 600 members, including online media giants and video platforms such as Tencent, Sohu, and Youku, as well as the websites of state-owned media outlets like news agency Xinhua and Party newspaper People’s Daily.
So the online party publications also abide by rules preventing screening on LGBT relationships. I'm not sure why you're referring to the other banned content, that obviously has nothing to do with this.
There is, of course, a systemic cultural bias, which is why the party also has a reactionary current within it with respect to this. They're not getting the members out of nowhere.
Two things can be true at once - the party is trying to limit foreign influence with their censorship. It is also, unfortunately, limiting the expression of LGBT issues. The CPC isn't perfect, of course, and this is one of the things they do have problems with. Their own publication frequently criticizes them for it.
The rights of LGBT people have been improving in China, and it's likely to continue that way, but it's important to acknowledge where there are shortcomings.
It is. The habit of forcing media personalities to undergo surgery and "look white" in order to climb the media ladder is harming people who fail to fit that model.
When femininity is deliberately coded as white and western by Hong Kong based media syndicates and advertisers, the effort to decouple and de-capitalize an industry that's built on injecting crass consumerism into every facet of local life.
This is definitely prudish, but a far cry from reactionary. It appears as though the effort is focused primarily on preserving the character of post-revolutionary Chinese society and defending against foreign efforts to interject subversive attitudes into public media. Indeed...
Statements like this suggest the reactionary attitudes are likely a consequence of privately run online services censoring content due to the views of the administrators. A chud run movie theater in the States might refuse to screen Brokeback Mountain or Clear Channel might pull Dixie Chicks off the airwaves because she spoke ill of the President. That isn't indicative of a state party problem, but a systemic cultural bias that needs to be confronted by the next generation of media users and producers.
So the online party publications also abide by rules preventing screening on LGBT relationships. I'm not sure why you're referring to the other banned content, that obviously has nothing to do with this.
Movies with LGBT themes (such as Brokeback Mountain) actually often don't get widespread theater screenings in China. This has also been touched on in Sixth Tone.
There is, of course, a systemic cultural bias, which is why the party also has a reactionary current within it with respect to this. They're not getting the members out of nowhere.
Two things can be true at once - the party is trying to limit foreign influence with their censorship. It is also, unfortunately, limiting the expression of LGBT issues. The CPC isn't perfect, of course, and this is one of the things they do have problems with. Their own publication frequently criticizes them for it.
The rights of LGBT people have been improving in China, and it's likely to continue that way, but it's important to acknowledge where there are shortcomings.
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