censorship

And no, that is not censorship.

And no, that is not censorship.

However, consumers and creators of queer content have found ways to thrive online through coded language or other censorship workarounds, according to Wang Shuaishuai, a lecturer at the University of Manchester who studies queer representation in Chinese media.

“For internet and culture regulators, they don’t know how to moderate this type of content either…. Sometimes they experiment with these censorship rules themselves.”

But given the ephemeral nature of China’s censorship apparatus, those tags can quickly evolve.