7. The term “state-sanctioned misogyny” was proposed by Han (2018). She argues that 'women's rights' is one of the topics most likely to be censored and surveilled on internet, and that any content involving 'feminist struggles' is likely to be censored because Weibo is being pressured by the government to classify it as a sensitive topic that undermine social stability. A feminist NGO, the subject of her study, whose ability of survival has become more and more worse due to the constant threat of censorship. In these terms, she argues that misogyny is a practice which the state approved in China.
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