{"id":6396,"date":"2021-07-08T12:29:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T12:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1359774"},"modified":"2021-07-08T12:29:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T12:29:31","slug":"china-bans-lgbt-wechat-groups-because-it-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=6396","title":{"rendered":"China bans LGBT WeChat groups because\u2026 it can?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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New day, new censorship hell in China. Earlier this week, several LGBT WeChat accounts run by university student groups found that they\u2019d lost access.<\/p>\n

As per Reuters<\/a>, the company deleted these accounts without any specific reasons. If you tried to access any of these groups you\u2019d find a notice saying they \u201chad violated regulations on the management of accounts offering public information service on the Chinese internet.\u201d A fathomable reason, indeed.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a report from AP<\/a>, these accounts were taken down on Tuesday at 10PM. It said that universities asked these groups to shut down or remove references to their college\u2019s name a few months before the incident.<\/p>\n

The Reuters report noted that in May, the university representatives of the Communist Youth League asked LGBT groups about their loyalty to the country and the party. Plus, it inquired those groups about sources of their funding.<\/span><\/p>\n

Homosexuality was decriminalized in China in 1997, and the Chinese Society of Psychiatry removed it from the list of mental disorders in 2001. However, a Human Rights Watch<\/a> report from 2017 noted that medical institutions used to offer \u2018conversion therapy\u2019 even at that time. <\/span><\/p>\n

The country has regularly cracked down on LGBT-related content. In 2016, it pulled down an extremely popular gay-themed web drama<\/a> called Heroin.<\/em><\/p>\n

Given China\u2019s approach towards minority groups,<\/a> it\u2019s not entirely surprising that it wants to ban any content that doesn\u2019t fit with its \u201cworldview.\u201d<\/p>\n

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