{"id":8050,"date":"2021-07-08T08:40:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T12:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=8050"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:49:09","slug":"wechat-removes-chinese-university-students-lgbt-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wechat-removes-chinese-university-students-lgbt-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"WeChat Removes Chinese University Students LGBT Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chinese tech giant Tencent&#8217;s social media platform WeChat has deleted dozens of LGBT accounts belonging to university students, some of whom allegedly violated online information rules, raising fears of a crackdown on online homosexual content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of several LGBT groups said access to their accounts was blocked late Tuesday and all content deleted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Homosexuality was classified as a mental disorder in China until 2001 when it became legal, but this year a court upheld a university&#8217;s description of homosexuality as a &#8220;psychological disorder.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LGBT groups have repeatedly faced censorship, and the Cyberspace Administration of China recently pledged to clean up the internet to protect minors and crackdown on social media deemed a &#8220;bad influence.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/chinas-wechat-deletes-university-lgbt-accounts-2021-07-07\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WeChat has deleted dozens of LGBT accounts belonging to university students raising fears of a crackdown on online homosexual content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8050"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8073,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050\/revisions\/8073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}