{"id":5471,"date":"2018-04-16T05:11:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T09:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=6863b07bbf61fe0d677617bd063b9931"},"modified":"2018-04-16T05:11:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T09:11:07","slug":"chinas-weibo-site-backtracks-on-gay-censorship-after-outcry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/16\/chinas-weibo-site-backtracks-on-gay-censorship-after-outcry\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Weibo site backtracks on gay censorship after outcry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING &#8212; One of China&#8217;s top social networking sites has announced that it will no longer be censoring content related to gay issues after the plan triggered a loud public outcry.<\/p>\n<p>Weibo.com was flooded over the weekend with the hashtags &#8220;#I&#8217;mGay&#8221; and &#8220;#I&#8217;mGayNotaPervert&#8221; after the Twitter-like platform said that cartoons and short videos with pornographic, violent or gay subject matter would be investigated over a three-month period.<\/p>\n<p>The microblogging site, which saw its Nasdaq shares fall on Friday, amended the announcement on Monday, saying, &#8220;This clean-up of games and cartoons will no longer target homosexual content.&#8221; A spokesman refused to provide further details.<\/p>\n<p>While homosexuality is not illegal in China and few Chinese have religious objections to homosexuality, the conservative society&#8217;s preference for marriage and childbearing has created barriers for LGBT people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING &mdash; One of China&rsquo;s top social networking sites has announced that it will no longer be censoring content related to gay issues after the plan triggered a loud public outcry. Weibo.com was flooded over the weekend with the hashtags &ldquo;#I&rsquo;mGay&rdquo; and &ldquo;#I&rsquo;mGayNotaPervert&rdquo; after the Twitter-like platform said that cartoons and short videos with pornographic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5474,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions\/5474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}