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Chinese Social Media Site Reverses Gay Content Ban After Uproar

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Re: Chinese Social Media Site Reverses Gay Content Ban After Uproar

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Post by StellarTabi »

ihsw2 wrote: post #74
Pinckney wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why should I care about looking respectable to a bunch of bible-thumpers who've spent the last decades loudly screaming about how much they hate me and everyone like me?

Homosexuality and promiscuity are closely intertwined, my argument is that they must be disentangled for homosexuality to be generally acceptable. More to the point, a homosexual that adheres to traditional family values (ie: one partner for life, moderate sobriety, responsible adult) is much more appealing than one that exists outside of traditional family values (ie: promiscuous, heavy drug and alcohol use, other i…

Ignoring the shameless use of numerous bigoted stereotypes...

> Homosexuality and promiscuity are closely intertwined, my argument is that they must be disentangled for homosexuality to be generally acceptable.

So why don't you quit entangling them? The only reason homosexuality and sex positivity are entangled is because of the thousands of years of murdering homosexuals, oppression of women, oppression of polyamorous, etc.. the thing they have in common seems to be a series of hateful bedroom laws enacted by a wannabe theocracy.

Re: Chinese Social Media Site Reverses Gay Content Ban After Uproar

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Post by ethbro »

ihsw2 wrote: post #75
ethbro wrote: post #68

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Generalizing the gay club scene to all gay people is like generalizing Panama City Spring Break to all straight people.

To be quite honest, it is accurate. Show me a homosexual that decries promiscuous lifestyles and drug use and I will show you a unicorn. Show me a person that advocates for gay rights while decrying promiscuity and I will show you ten unicorns.

I can count 5 of my friends in the former category, and 6 in the latter, just off the top of my head.

Do you have many gay friends?

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Post by intopieces »

est wrote: post #33
jamesrcole wrote: post #30

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> Western media intends to portrait "china" as one single top-down entity, but as a matter of fact it's not. Are you saying this article does that? I don't see anything in it that does. Can you quote me anything in it that does? > There are thousands of bureaucratic federal or local government branches can start an Internet crackdown. You seem to be wanting to imply that this precludes the existence of attempts that…

> precludes the existence of attempts that come from a higher level They do exist, but 80% cases you see online is not. There's big rule is 属地原则 which topics online must be traced back to its geographical local agency to manage. Actions taken by central government exists but just rare. e.g. 严打.

Your post contains Chinese that most people here cannot read. Care to explain?

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Post by darpa_escapee »

aplummer wrote: post #38
darpa_escapee wrote: post #31

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Yes. Listings are removed from Google, Bing etc all of the time. Recently, a subreddit dedicated to sharing beer was removed from Reddit. Youtube recently banned certain gun-related videos [1] on its platform. [1] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43500714

I don’t know how you can link to an article about banning killing machine video content as a comparison to banning gay content with a straight face. This is an example of YouTube taking positive social responsibility which is fantastic. And no, “positive” is not subjective in this case at at all.

> I don’t know how you can link to an article about banning killing machine video content as a comparison to banning gay content with a straight face.

Many Americans value their first and second amendment rights. PS I'm gay.

Google, Twitter and friends also censor Islamic fundamentalist content and discussion, along with other subversives.

Subreddits about drug use are removed often. Talking about using drugs isn't a crime.

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Post by ShowMeUnicorns »

ihsw2 wrote: post #75
ethbro wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Generalizing the gay club scene to all gay people is like generalizing Panama City Spring Break to all straight people.

To be quite honest, it is accurate. Show me a homosexual that decries promiscuous lifestyles and drug use and I will show you a unicorn. Show me a person that advocates for gay rights while decrying promiscuity and I will show you ten unicorns.

Hey, just made an account to say I'm one of those, and I have several gay friends who are in the same ship. Gay men being promiscuous is just a shitty stereotype that's as baseless as it is persistent

How about you take a look at any of the studies that have debunked it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1783788

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