Following Alibaba rape case, Sina announced today it’ll adopt anti-sexual harassment polices after soliciting employee input. Last week, Ali & IQiyi also announced they’ll adopt policies. Details of policy design will indicate whether these initiatives r meaningful or cosmetic 1/ Link: s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E6…. Civil Code, effective Jan 1, put a duty on employers to adopt reasonable measures to prevent, investigate & respond to sexual harassment. Eg of Legal Daily public education re Civil Code (legaldaily.com.cn/zt/content/202…):

This 🧵 outlines *some* major developments re online censorship of LGBT content in China over the past few years to provide context for the shuttering of LGBT student groups’ social media accounts. First, this is yesterday's development: variety.com/2021/politics/… 2015: Queer film director Fan Popo’s documentary, Mama Rainbow, disappears from multiple video-sharing sites. Sites claim authorities ordered them to take it down. Fan sues the media regulator, who claims they never gave the order. Fan loses on this point: wsj.com/articles/BL-CJ…

.@Yale’s Prof. Helen Siu just back from HK: “How has the protest sustained itself for over 100 days in a busy & business-like city?” “Life goes on but there has been a fundamental change in social alliances, political awareness & values.” Many sectors involved: students . . . mid/prof classes, moms, elders, civil servants. “There has been 2 decades of erosion in rule of law, free markets, personal freedoms, core features of the 1 country 2 systems”, “Hong Kong’s professional & middle classes have deeply feared this” . . .

10 years ago today I walked out of Urumqi’s People’s Park onto an eerily empty street. Black SUVs w/ flashing lights rushed by. Something was wrong 1/

https://twitter.com/supchinanews/status/1146418322155569152

I got to South Gate. Rushing through the intersection were APCs, busloads of troops, damaged police cars. I met a Uyghur & a Han student. We heard gunshot bursts in the distance. We figured we should stay put.