Police arrest scores of Chinese women writing 'boy love' fiction for money
www.abc.net.au
Police in China are arresting female authors of homosexual romance novels, in a widespread crackdown on the "boys love" fiction genre.

(boy’s love writers, so i guess more yaoi then slash) admit i didn’t read the whole article because it seems ridiculous and western reporting on China is like 90% fabrications. someone educate me on whatever this is. is it conservative local governments doing local government shit?

my partner loves this shit especially from China and i don’t want to inform her about some made up BS designed to radicalize the slash and yaoi community against the CPC

  • BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    45·
    9 days ago

    Radio Free Asia reported that

    lmao

    If this is even actually happening, I suspect it has more to do with China’s pornography laws (which amount to a blanket ban on creating any such work) than homophobia.

    • Parzivus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      9 days ago

      Article does indeed say

      China last updated its laws on “digitally obscene” content in 2010.
      Those regulations said the “production, reproduction, publication, trafficking, dissemination” of any obscene works that generate more than 5,000 clicks online, or that make profits of more than 5,000 yuan ($1,072), should be treated as a crime.

      It’s not immediately clear from the article if the works in question are 18+ or are just treated as obscene for being gay.

          • CrawlMarks [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            181·
            9 days ago

            Having only the information that the US government said it is happening we can safely assume it didn’t. They probably accidentally report true things sometimes but that would be an outlier if so.

              • CrawlMarks [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                14·
                9 days ago

                I’ll doubble down. I have no doubt a thing like that has happened. However I would bet money that the RFA reporting on that incident is meaningfully different enough as to make any attempt at analyzing meaning from it misleading and useless.

                  • Monstertruckenjoyer [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
                    101·
                    9 days ago

                    He’s doubting RFA’s reporting, not that China has never committed a human rights violation.

                    If your question is “how can we, the West, analyze and critique this” then the answer is that we cannot based on biased sources

                  • CrawlMarks [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                    61·
                    9 days ago

                    Yes. I am saying the reporting of RFA is specifically removed from context to the extent that if they have a story about a true event reading it will likely lead you to an incorrect conclusion. So in effect any story you see there is fake.

      • CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        9·
        9 days ago

        it was only a few months ago that people downloaded redbook, a chinese social media app filled with gay people kissing each other in the frontpage

        i don’t disbelieve that there’s a blanket ban on lgbtq issues in China, in the same sense that anti porn laws are applied selectively in Japan and that a similar social conservative streak dominates in India. but given that the main source for this issue is RFA then i’m gonna err on the side of caution. which is to not assume that there’s a repeat of the chechnya concentration camps situation