The Chinese government claims LGBTQ+ people are protected from discrimination. Our interviews with 26 activists tell another story
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A survey of 28,454 people found only 5% of LGBTQ+ people in China chose to disclose their sexual and/or gender identity in public settings.
  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    60·
    3 months ago

    Ausma Bernot: https://www.ausmabernot.com/

    Her work has been published in top journals, including “Surveillance & Society”, “Intelligence and National Security”, and “Internet Policy Review.”

    questions totalisation of surveillance in China.

    This ““researcher”” is a fed. Literally everything they work on and publish is pushing a state department agenda.

    • hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      26·
      3 months ago

      I’ve checked her other writings, they’re filled with Australian anti-china brainworms that only come from being a white aussie who uncritically loves the West.

      “Even if TikTok and other apps are collecting your data, what are the actual consequences?”

      Within China, Douyin complies with strict national content regulation. This includes censoring information about the religious movement Falun Gong and the Tiananmen massacre, among other examples.

      This is totally a person whose opinions on China we should take very seriously and even more seriously than actual Chinese queer people from within the diaspora and in China because lgbtq advocacy to the West and many queers who live in the Imperial Core is about “civilizing” socially-backwards peoples into the wonders of hollywood-brand white gays.