WeChat, a popular platform in China, has quietly deleted the accounts of LGBTQ ((lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) groups at several major Chinese universities.
The deletion of this account is also accompanied by a warning due to violations of rules in the community that occur on the chat application platform.
According to Insider's report, the group's account is no longer visible on WeChat. But users on Weibo have compiled a list of some of the groups affected by the policy and found that among them are those run by students at Tsinghua University and Fudan University.
Unfortunately there was no comment from the owner and operator of WeChat, Tencent to comment on the deleted account and what rules the group may have broken.
However, a statement by one of Tencent Group's managers anonymously told the Associated Press that they had been asked by the university to shut down its WeChat page or remove any mention of the university's name before WeChat acted.
In 2001 the Chinese government removed homosexuality or same-sex attraction from the list of mental disorders that became the guidelines of the Chinese Psychiatric Association.
WeChat's central role as the more or less default app used by many people in China makes the deletion of these accounts a major obstacle for LGBTQ advocacy groups.
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