Multiple social media accounts belonging to major university lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights groups in China have been blocked from the popular WeChat app, prompting fears of targeted censorship. BEIJING: Multiple social media accounts belonging to major university lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights groups in China have been blocked from the popular WeChat app, prompting fears of targeted censorship and calls on Wednesday for an online protest.
Super-app WeChat is China's biggest social media platform, with instant messaging, blogs and other content, as well as the ability to make payments. Zhihe Society, a feminist student group at Shanghai's Fudan University focusing on sexual minorities, confirmed that its WeChat official account had been permanently deleted in a statement on another social media platform on Wednesday."It's very clear that there's no possibility that Zhihe's original account can be revived in the short term," the organisation said in a statement on the Twitter-like Weibo platform, without giving details of the reason for the takedown.
Tencent, which owns WeChat, did not immediately respond to AFP's query on what prompted the account removals.Multiple WeChat users not affected by the block circulated lists of deleted accounts and called on Wednesday for a digital protest against the deletions, asking readers to change their profile names to"unnamed account" in support of the groups.
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