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What's up with these arrests of slash fic/yaoi writers in China? Real or propaganda? (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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(boy's love writers) admit i didn't read the whole article because it seems ridiculous and western reporting on China is like 90% fabrications. someone educate me on whatever this is. is it conservative local governments doing local government shit?

my partner loves this shit especially from China and i don't want to inform her about some made up BS designed to radicalize the slash and yaoi community against the CPC

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It looks like this is a really heavily propagandised presentation of a year old story. About a year ago a website called Haitang based out of Taipei was using a money laundering method to pay some authors on its platform in a way that would avoid them having to pay tax on that income. They got shut down for like a few days and changed the site's payout model. As far as I can tell, a few authors got in minor trouble for tax evasion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I cannot find sources for this. Can you share ? I can confirm that the story is a year old. https://x.com/skyarise/status/1819764327450345737 https://x.com/taro_and_cream/status/1740357725778067588

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