Can social media juice birthrates?
David Wertime and Protocol
https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/protocol-china/china-social-media-birthrate
Beijing's effort to return the country to its patriarchal, male-dominated past is a social media-driven enterprise, with repeated efforts to shame and silence the online attempts of women and minorities like LGBTQ+ youth calling for greater freedoms.
- Women have been the favored target for online nationalists, who have engineered shutdowns of women's groups and made once-inclusive(ish) platforms like Bilibili increasingly hostile to women.
- Now it's LGBTQ+ groups in the sights of nationalist influencers, known as Red Vs. Protocol's Shen Lu reported on Tuesday that Tencent-owned WeChat shuttered without warning the accounts of over a dozen LGBTQ+ student groups — with no explanation so far from Tencent or Chinese authorities.
The big question is: Why attack diversity?
David Wertime and Protocol
https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/protocol-china/china-social-media-birthrate
Beijing's effort to return the country to its patriarchal, male-dominated past is a social media-driven enterprise, with repeated efforts to shame and silence the online attempts of women and minorities like LGBTQ+ youth calling for greater freedoms.
- Women have been the favored target for online nationalists, who have engineered shutdowns of women's groups and made once-inclusive(ish) platforms like Bilibili increasingly hostile to women.
- Now it's LGBTQ+ groups in the sights of nationalist influencers, known as Red Vs. Protocol's Shen Lu reported on Tuesday that Tencent-owned WeChat shuttered without warning the accounts of over a dozen LGBTQ+ student groups — with no explanation so far from Tencent or Chinese authorities.
The big question is: Why attack diversity?