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How is there a harsh crackdown while also massive department store sized place to buy merch and books? Why didn't they mention the 12 books that were censored? They did mention that publishing rules on that Taiwanese platform were more lax, is this crackdown on LGBT or on the fact that they were publishing though the ROC? Or was the content of what they were publishing though that house maybe not exclusively LGBT and possibly something else?
The whole thing smells a little fishy with the "this genre is being heavily censored, but is also still widely available, but the ones being censored are definitely being censored for the genre" line.
It’s probably not the gay eroticism that’s the concern.
Now I'm actually curious what the real story is, there's something happening here, but it's pretty clearly just being used as propaganda in this article.
The cop saying "you should have known you'd get in trouble for publishing this" should make it pretty obvious that whatever they were publishing specifically is likely very different from the standard "Boy Love" genre.
I'm kinda leaning towards the content in question containing explicit stories about young boys, but without the police reports or source material we can't know
Edit: Here's clip from that first article she links
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I think what's happening here is that the "Rotten Culture" is being conflated with homosexuality in general. I'm not sure exactly what the subgenre is, but it seems like it's more about pornographic material than anything. If homosexuality was so condemned, I don't think you'd have a massive industry rush to invest tons of money into gay focused media. You definitely wouldn't have almost 25% of young people respond that there either gay, bi, or unsure if there was serious consequences to saying that.