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The Bangkok Post
The Bangkok Post
BEIJING: The highly anticipated return of “Friends” to Chinese streaming platforms soured quickly after fans noticed an LGBTQ plotline was cut from the American sitcom — and their complaints were censored too. China’s top platforms started streaming the series on Friday, but the back story of a lesbian character was absent from the first season’s second episode. Fans flooded social media with complaints about the removal, with the top-trending hashtag “Friends censored” racking up tens of millions of views on the Twitter-like Weibo platform. “I compared this episode and found that all the line…