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Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, has reversed a ban on homosexual content after the LGBT community accused the company of unfairly grouping gay content with violence and pornography.

On Friday, Weibo announced plans to remove violent, pornographic and homosexual videos and cartoons over the next three months, singling out a genre of manga that often depicts gay male relationships for particular criticism.

The decision sparked outrage in the Chinese LGBT community, with activists taking to social media to condemn the microblogging website with the hashtags #IAmGay and #IAmGayNotAPervert. They also wrote open letters and made calls for others to drop shares in Sina Corporation, a technology company that launched Weibo in 2009.

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Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong takes part in the annual pride parade in Hong Kong, China November 25, 2017. On Monday, Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, reversed their decision to censor gay content over the next three months, after facing backlash from the LGBT community.
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Following the backlash, Sina Weibo said on Monday it would no longer target gay content and will only focus on pornographic and violent materials. “This clean-up of games and cartoons will no longer target gay content. Thank you everyone for the discussion and your suggestions,” the company said in a statement.

It is unclear whether Sina’s measure was a direct result of a censorship directive from the government or an initiative taken by the company itself.

According to LGBT advocates, the outcry reflects a fear that growing censorship tends to ban all gay content as “dirty,” a setback for efforts to carve out an online space of tolerance for homosexuality in China’s traditionally Confucian society. The hashtag #IAmGay was viewed almost 300 million times on the microblogging platform before it was censored on Saturday.

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On Sunday, the People's Daily, an official Communist Party newspaper, encouraged tolerance toward gay people. However, it noted that “vulgar” content must be removed regardless of whether it pertains to homosexuality or heterosexuality.

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Erwin Vogelaar