Digital supporters of LGBTQ and feminist communities in China were outraged and quickly silenced last week when WeChat permanently wiped out hundreds of profiles overnight without a trace, leading to concerns of a crackdown by the communist government.
The powerful social network, which has over a billion annual users, also swiftly shut down the ensuing online demonstration, deleting accounts where users changed their profiles to "unnamed account" and spoke out using #unnamedofficialaccount, reported the South China Morning Post.
Some of the LGBTQ and feminist accounts had a notice from WeChat stating it received "complaints about the pages," and informed people logging onto the profile that, "all content has been blocked and the use of the