The Chinese social media platform Weibo has shut down several accounts for “inciting gender antagonism” and vowed to continue cracking down on such behaviour.

On Monday, the social media site announced via its official account that it had permanently closed an account named “Lilian Shuodao” for “continuously stigmatising the opposite sex and posting extreme anti-marriage remarks”. The term “opposite sex” referred to men.

As of Tuesday, the banned account, which had 129,000 followers, was no longer accessible, but posts previously shared by other users showed that it frequently posted content raising awareness about sexual harassment in public places and voyeurism in China, as well as advocating feminism.

Another account, “FxxkFeminazi”, with over 5,000 followers, was also permanently banned. Weibo’s official censors said that the account had “posted insulting and attacking remarks targeting the opposite sex, inciting gender antagonism”.

The social media platform also temporarily suspended an account called “Lucha Fayan Dashang”, which had over 650,000 followers. Weibo said that the account had “repeatedly posted vulgar and insulting remarks about the opposite sex, inciting hostility through inappropriate comparisons and malicious associations”.

The suspended account had shared news articles relating to rape cases, domestic violence and sexual harassment, and had mocked Chinese authorities for their inadequate handling of these issues.

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