James Griffiths is a Senior Producer for CNN International and author of"The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet."After apparently censoring a popular hashtag related to LGBT issues, the Chinese social network restored access Tuesday following a major backlash from users. That backlash saw Weibo filled with rainbow flags, while related hashtags attracted millions of views and posts.
— 吕频Lü Pin April 15, 2019 Great FirewallWhile there are some hard and fast rules for what content is banned in China — pornography, separatism, terrorism, for example — for the most part companies are expected to regulate themselves. There is no comprehensive blacklist of sensitive topics, so companies, and their legions of censors, must second-guess whether individual posts or discussions are to be allowed, based on their interpretation of public pronouncements and campaigns.
— Christian 马思潭 April 16, 2019 The general lack of certainty about what they're supposed to police often leads companies to err on the side of caution, fearing potentially ruinous punishments for failing to censor something they should have. Last year, Quora-style question and answer service Zhiyu was removed from app stores for a week"due to lax supervision and the spread of illegal information," according to a leaked censorship directive.
I realize something upsetting. Once again, the fighting for our equal right had been failed. Weibo haven't said anything since they closed the super topics of 'les' 4 days ago. And many chinese LGBT people still go completely silent on this one.
Sure, but it’s going to cost you some social credits. I shit you not...social credits
Chinese laws does not allowed
I know where you can be openly gay, Western culture
What the hell asking!!!!! I got solution for these gays, all should be registered n every month they all should be injected by INIECTION TO STOP EMOTIONS FOR SEX,in our QURAN SHARIEF written don't go to have s.. with man so it is SIN, so ONLY solution for them is this
Yes. Anyone can be gay and online and what does it have to do with social media? Weirdest news channel ever.
If by 'gay' you mean happy, I don't see why not.
Puedes ser abiertamente Comunista Revolucionario en EEUU. O siendo Socialista ya estas significado...
Ironically, these both political systems (Communism and Islamism) are those Democrats wants to America.That's bad!
I love what I am so why not
as for me, my attitude to them is that don't support and don't oppose. their freedom✨✨
Is that grounds for execution in the wonderful land of China 🇨🇳
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