Chinese Social Media Site Reverses Gay Content Ban After Uproar

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Post by raleighm » Mon, Apr 16, 2018, 11:56 PM UTC

Chinese Social Media Site Reverses Gay Content Ban After Uproar
nytimes.com

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Post by tomcooks » Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 4:35 AM UTC

That's what happens when you use a centralized service, especially if it's state approved.

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Post by KKKKkkkk1 » Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 4:53 AM UTC

It's heartening to see that the Chinese public will not stand for homophobia. Countries that look to China as a model (looking at you Russia) should take note.

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Post by rulermorg » Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 5:03 AM UTC

Man Chinese government is like Hitler Germany + Big Brother from 1984 + Norsefire party from V for Vendetta. I'm so glad I don't live in China.

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Post by est » Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 5:07 AM UTC

Western media intends to portrait "china" as one single top-down entity, but as a matter of fact it's not.

There are thousands of bureaucratic federal or local government branches can start an Internet crackdown.

The whole "anti-gay" nonscence might came from a office clerk smashing his head for April KPI campaigns and baidu'd for random shit to block and passed through the chain of command. That's it.

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 5:12 AM UTC

> Even People’s Daily, a state-run newspaper, published an article online that included veiled criticism of Weibo’s announcement. The article said that being gay or bisexual was “not a disease,” but it added that gay people needed to “take on their own social responsibilities while advocating their rights.”

I think this [1] is the People's Daily article referenced. If so, the quoted language has been scrubbed.

[1] http://en.people.cn/n3/2018/0416/c90000-9449771.html

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Post by PhasmaFelis » Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 5:13 AM UTC

est wrote: post #5

Western media intends to portrait "china" as one single top-down entity, but as a matter of fact it's not. There are thousands of bureaucratic federal or local government branches can start an Internet crackdown. The whole "anti-gay" nonscence might came from a office clerk smashing his head for April KPI campaigns and baidu'd for random shit to block and passed through the chain of command. That's it.

That doesn't really make it better.

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Post by westiseast » Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 5:15 AM UTC

I was in Fujian, China, two weeks ago and did a Bing web/image search for ‘gay men’ (unrelated to any of this news).

Zero results returned, and a standard note about violent and sexually explicit content being censored.

Thought that was odd.

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Post by mattliu » Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 5:15 AM UTC

Where in the article does it say that Weibo is backing down?

All it seems to say is "backlash happened".

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Post by h8liu » Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 5:26 AM UTC

related discussion:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-opinion-on-the-recent-Chi...