The group was forced to scale back on activities and keep their gatherings limited to private settings. Cathy, who spoke to the news outlet under a pseudonym, told CNN that her group (which she did not name) saw the tone of LGBTQ-related conversations on campus change over the years. WeChat's operator Tencent, Tsinghua, and Fudan, did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider.ĬNN spoke to Cathy, 25, the moderator of a Beijing university's LGBTQ group that was around for six years and had 18,000 followers before being shut down. If I was more like Digg, and wanted to check out all the profiles I could find, I wouldn’t be so overwhelmed. I like that the sign-up process takes 10 minutes, and that I can keep an eye on what the profiles of people are. It seems to fit my personality, or the personalities I find online. In this list were college LGBTQ groups based in schools across the Chinese mainland, including communities at elite colleges like Tsinghua University in Beijing, and Fudan University in Shanghai. Well, right now, Hinge is the best dating site. However, screenshots have circulated on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, the country's version of Twitter, showing the chat groups with their names replaced by 'Unknown Chat Group.'Ī list of the chat groups that were taken offline on Wednesday was also posted on Weibo. At the time of reporting, Insider was unable to gain access to the WeChat accounts in question.
