China is cracking down on young women who write gay erotica
www.bbc.com
At least 30 writers have been arrested across the country since February, a lawyer tells the BBC.

“I’ve been warned not to talk about it,” the woman wrote, before revealing snippets of the day she says she was arrested for publishing gay erotica.

“I’ll never forget it - being escorted to the car in full view, enduring the humiliation of stripping naked for examination in front of strangers, putting on a vest for photos, sitting in the chair, shaking with fear, my heart pounding.”

The handle, Pingping Anan Yongfu, is among at least 8 in recent months which have shared accounts on Chinese social media platform Weibo of being arrested for publishing gay erotic fiction. As authors recounted their experiences, dozens of lawyers offered pro bono help.

At least 30 writers, nearly all of them women in their 20s, have been arrested across the country since February, a lawyer defending one told the BBC. Many are out on bail or awaiting trial, but some are still in custody. Another lawyer told the BBC that many more contributors were summoned for questioning.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      462·
      23 days ago

      Clearly, the BBC made it all up. Because it contradicts them. /s

      Literally the newest top-level comment right now.

    • PolydoreSmith@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2917·
      21 days ago

      You don’t even have to be charged with anything before ICE grabs you off the street and throws you in a van in the US…

    • Corn@lemmy.mlEnglish
      311·
      22 days ago

      To be clear, writing and posting erotica isn’t illegal, its profiting off it that was illegal, which is still fucked, but less of a free speech issue.

        • Corn@lemmy.mlEnglish
          59·
          22 days ago

          Correct. But at the same time, once you understand your speech is limited by your reach, which is determined by how big of a megaphone the capitalists will let you have, it becomes more murky. You can say whatever you want in America, and if the government doesnt like it, you will be silenced and ignored. The same applies in China, but there is a greater record of the government actually listening, though often to the worst groups, such as nimbys protesting the expansion of the Shangai maglev and assholes protesting even limited lockdowns in the city with the most covid that keeps infecting the rest of the country.

    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      716·
      23 days ago

      Che Guevara, from Desalinas PFP, was also rather homophonic. I wouldn’t make it a point of purity testing. People in the past did things according to their time (not saying its justified).

      The .ml crew has enought to criticize today. Big part them being a different flavor of impiralism

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1130·
      23 days ago

      It’s really weird and kinda reddit-like to see a human rights violation and twist the story to be about some online community.

        • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          610·
          23 days ago

          Yes, that’s exactly what they’re talking about and you’re being extremely weird in making it a priority of discussion on something at best tangentially related.

          It’s just a straw man writ large because you’re miffed at another online argument you had somewhere else.

          • breecher@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            84·
            22 days ago

            We are referring to the staunch defenders of the oppressive system which this thread is about, defenders who are very proactive on lemmy. The fact that you cannot see the relevance is on you.

            • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              44·
              22 days ago

              Just because you feel like the straw men deserve it doesn’t change that you’re arguing with hypotheticals versions you’ve created instead of actual people.

            • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              55·
              22 days ago

              You’ve literally defined the argument of an opposing group to look stupid so you can dunk on them. You’re arguing with a straw man. This isn’t even a critique of your rhetorical basis though, it’s just normal Internet lameness.

              • QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                55·
                22 days ago

                You cannot present a strawman argument when the side you are arguing against isn’t present. Thus I was not making a straw man. That’s just insulting tankies

                Don’t bring these up unless you understand them and in this case you do not.

                • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                  42·
                  22 days ago

                  Lol, what? Do you seriously think you cannot create a straw man argument in anything but direct debate? Sure Mr. Smartman.

                  Hint, logical fallacies are about the logic, not the debate.

                  • QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                    34·
                    22 days ago

                    I think you need to be actually arguing with someone to make an argument against them, yes. You cannot make an argument when you aren’t doing so. You need to be debating to make logical fallacies. No one was doing that hence no one made a strawman argument.

                    Do you need this further explained? No argument was made. The side you are claiming I am making a strawman argument against is not present. There is no debate.

                    You used it wrong. Learn from this and move on. Don’t misuse them in the future.

      • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        53·
        23 days ago

        “some” = the one that’s the basis of and technically closely tied to the one you’re using right now