Is Rednote Quietly Erasing Queer Voices? How China's hottest social platform is shutting down LGBTQ and dating communities under the guise of "security risks"

I once created a group on Rednote for queer members, where I wrote about LGBTQ life, photography, and hookup stories. The content attracted steady traffic, with at least five new members joining daily. Unfortunately, the group was shut down by the platform's administrators under the vague reason of 'security risks.' I appealed multiple times, but none were successful. From what I've heard, receiving such a penalty is quite rare. Do you think Rednote's censorship is unfairly targeting queer, hookup, and dating content?

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Vegetable_Debt_7921•2 months ago•1

This isn't America. Mainland China is super strict and you do need to be aware of what's illegal while using Rednote. The only LGBT community that is open is in Taiwan though, you can try instagram with the Taiwan queer community but you will never be able to do things like this on a mainland app.

AnnualMuscle774•2 months ago•1

There are also many homosexuals in China, but they do not promote LGBT on public platforms. The platform maintains a respectful but not encouraging attitude. I guess this may be the reason for the ban, but it is not unfair treatment. Most young people in the young group think this is a normal thing.

Aggravating_Copy6791•2 months ago•1

As a Chinese person who also uses rednote , I don't think rednote is unfairly targeting queer.

flllllntan•2 months ago•1

They always do, everywhere. Unfortunately ccp hates gay and woman, and all social media works for them

PizzaCrumbsInBeard•2 months ago•1

Chinese communist party does not care about the LGBT

LeaderThren•2 months ago•1

Yes.

Abject-Leave6923•2 months ago•1

Queer? No.

Dating? No.

Hookup? Yes.

Don’t even try to say it’s LGBTQ phobia man. Look into China’s strict pornography and sex industry laws. Prostitution is illegal in China. I’m guessing you probably didn’t know this and said some openly sexualizing hookup things in the group. THAT is the reason why it is banned. Prostitution is very easily fabricated into a “hookup” and prostitution is ,guess what? Illegal.

Ana_Na_Moose•2 months ago•1

RedNote is fairly hostile for any advocacy group that isn’t explicitly Chinese nationalist. This includes but is not limited to groups or individuals who are outspoken for queer advocacy.

Censorship on RedNote is very real. Anyone who uses the app should be aware of the ridiculous rules before posting or commenting, or else risk being banned.

rephil3•2 months ago•0

It's the same with divination and astrology; content allowed but it has to be subdued and not predictive, furthermore no groups are allowed. Same for WeChat.

LGBT can very quick transgress into sexualization, etc - or promotion of values that are opposing the societal development that CPC wants for China and chinese citizens.

Todd_H_1982•2 months ago•0

No. Not at all. Chinese people know how to operate these kinds of groups.

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