r/technology • u/longiner • Jan 18 '25

Social Media As US TikTok users move to RedNote, some are encountering Chinese-style censorship for the first time

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/16/tech/tiktok-refugees-rednote-china-censorship-intl-hnk/index.html
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u/marstarvin Jan 19 '25

From your article one dude says everyone from his boss, parents, and the students he teaches knows he's gay

I'm not excusing the actions of the CCP, I'm just saying there are gay people in China, and from my conversation with one, they are openly flamboyant in Chengdu. Nobody is hiding it.

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u/Forsaken-Ad5571 Jan 19 '25

You’re taking any one city when the guy you’ve talked to has said he can be open. You do realise that’s really, really, really not great compared to a lot of western countries? Like sure, it’s better than the Middle East, but it’s still not a great gay city in general. Also that’s the exception, other cities in China are not like that, let alone anywhere in the rural parts. And China is huge, so there being just one “gay city” shows how bad the situation there is.

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u/marstarvin Jan 19 '25

You are making it sound like they are being rounded to an internment camp and being tortured.

I do think CCP is a bit shady and I am for LGBT rights, but at this point, you are just projecting Western values to an Eastern country.