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[World News] Chinese LGBTQ deplores “dark day” after social media crackdown Censorship News Chengdu, China – Without warning a week ago, WeChat, China’s popular social media platform, has definitively suspended the official accounts of more than a dozen LGBTQ university groups to spark a new round of discussion about the country’s already threatened community. The disruption largely affected groups that were almost entirely run by students, including prestigious academic institutions at Tsinghua and Beijing universities. The group’s missions, according to the brief introductions, were “advocating for gender equality and sexual minority rights.” Several students who run LGBTQ group accounts told...
