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Women Are Battling Chinaâs Angry Trolls. The Trolls Are Winning.
As online attacks against Chinese feminists intensify, popular social media companies are responding by removing the women â not the abusers â from their platforms.
Liang Xiaowen, a lawyer in New York who posts on Weibo about feminist topics, is suing the company after her account was removed.Credit.Meghan Marin for The New York Times
April 24, 2021, 10:20 a.m. ET
The feministsâ social media accounts had been slowly disappearing in China for days. And when that wasnât enough for their angry critics, a powerful voice on the internet stepped in to help.
China feminists face clampdown, closure of online accounts
Dozens of Chinese feminist social media channels have been abruptly deactivated over the past few days, triggering anger and fear that women s rights activists will be systemically denied an online presence.
Popular micro-blogging site Weibo has abruptly removed the accounts of several feminist activists in recent weeks
China s feminist movement has been facing another wave of crackdowns, with dozens of social media accounts run by feminist activists abruptly shut down in recent weeks.
The accounts have been removed from the popular micro-blogging site Weibo, as well as the online platform Douban, which claim the suspended accounts contain extreme and ideological content.
Chinese feminists are being silenced by nationalist trolls. Some are fighting back
The torrent of hate messages filling Liang Xiaowen’s inbox stopped as suddenly as it had started.
For a week, the 29-year-old Chinese feminist was subject to incessant chauvinist and misogynist attacks on Weibo, one of China’s most popular social media sites. She was called a “traitor” and a “xenocentric bitch.” Some users discussed how to find her parents’ home address.
Then, without any warning, Liang’s account was removed by Weibo.
“At first, I could not believe it,” she said. “The slander against me continued online, but I can’t even defend myself anymore.”
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