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Where in the article does it say that Weibo is backing down? All it seems to say is "backlash happened".
by mattliu 8y ago
Where in the article does it say that Weibo is backing down?
All it seems to say is "backlash happened".
- dang 8y agoAgreed. We changed the title to that of the actual article. Submitted title was "China's Weibo backs down from censoring gay content following backlash". Submitters: rewriting titles like that is a violation of the site guidelines. If the facts have changed since the article was written, you can explain that by posting a comment about it to the thread, or by finding a more up-to-date article and submitting that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- PakG1 8y agoSee my other reply, there are articles that explicitly say that it actually happened. See other reply for links. Perhaps change the link instead?
- dang 8y agoOk, we've changed the URL from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/15/world/asia/china-gay-ban-sina-weibo-.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/15/world/asia/china-gay-ban-.... Thanks!
- PakG1 8y agoHeh, the article actually really didn't say it. I was thinking maybe you just didn't read it carefully. Here are articles that explicitly say it. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/world/asia/china-weibo-gay.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/world/asia/china-weibo-ga... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/16/china-weibo-bans-homosexual-content-protest https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/16/china-weibo-ba...