After the police dispersed foreign domestic helpers last week, the Labour Department today (15 Aug) sent temporary staff to explain the two-person gathering ban and mask orders in various Asian languages, displaying posters and distributing leaflets near the bridge of Mongkok train station. Ironically, this working group has more than two people and clearly violates the two-person gathering ban; however, the government likely invoked exemptions to legalize their own actions.
#FirstHand #Aug15 #GatheringBan #DomesticWorkers #GovernmentExemption
#FirstHand #Aug15 #GatheringBan #DomesticWorkers #GovernmentExemption
#YellowRainCoat #PoliceState
Police Ticket Citizens Commemorating Deceased Pro-democracy Protester, Force Reporters to Delete Photos
Aug15 marked the 14th month after the 35-year-old pro-democracy protester fell to his death from Pacific Place during the anti-ELAB movement.
In the evening, police was stationed at the mall and nearby Admiralty subway station.
At around 6pm, police charged in the shopping mall and intercepted over 10 citizens, among them were reporters wearing reflective vests. Police demanded their press ID and took away 2 reporters onto the police car. It was said that the two are underage. The police later claimed that the 2 were not arrested but escorted to leave.
Police also ticketed 2 voluntary first-aiders for violating the gathering ban, as well as some citizens who paid tribute to the deceased "Yellow Raincoat Man". Police intercepted an Inmedia reporter who was filming the police operation in subway station.
Source: Stand News; InMedia #Aug15
Police Ticket Citizens Commemorating Deceased Pro-democracy Protester, Force Reporters to Delete Photos
Aug15 marked the 14th month after the 35-year-old pro-democracy protester fell to his death from Pacific Place during the anti-ELAB movement.
In the evening, police was stationed at the mall and nearby Admiralty subway station.
At around 6pm, police charged in the shopping mall and intercepted over 10 citizens, among them were reporters wearing reflective vests. Police demanded their press ID and took away 2 reporters onto the police car. It was said that the two are underage. The police later claimed that the 2 were not arrested but escorted to leave.
Police also ticketed 2 voluntary first-aiders for violating the gathering ban, as well as some citizens who paid tribute to the deceased "Yellow Raincoat Man". Police intercepted an Inmedia reporter who was filming the police operation in subway station.
Source: Stand News; InMedia #Aug15
#PoliceState
Police Arrest Pro-democracy Civilians while escorting Radical Police Fanatics away
In remembrance of 'Yellow Raincoat Man' Marco Leung Ling-kit who was the first pro-democracy protester who sacrificed his life during the Anti-ELAB movement 14 months ago, citizens gathered outside of Pacific Place on August 15, 2020. Soon afterwards, police arrived and ticketed at least 3 civilians on the scene, citing violation of the gathering ban.
Pro-Beijing and pro-police radicalist Shek Fong-yau showed up with a woman and they took close-up photographs of citizens coming to pay tribute to the deceased. Both were escorted to leave by police later.
On the contrary, an InMedia reporter who had filmed the police was forced by the police to delete all the photos.
Source: Stand News
#Aug15 #Neverforget #Neverforgive #HKProtest #PoliceState #PoliceBrutality
Police Arrest Pro-democracy Civilians while escorting Radical Police Fanatics away
In remembrance of 'Yellow Raincoat Man' Marco Leung Ling-kit who was the first pro-democracy protester who sacrificed his life during the Anti-ELAB movement 14 months ago, citizens gathered outside of Pacific Place on August 15, 2020. Soon afterwards, police arrived and ticketed at least 3 civilians on the scene, citing violation of the gathering ban.
Pro-Beijing and pro-police radicalist Shek Fong-yau showed up with a woman and they took close-up photographs of citizens coming to pay tribute to the deceased. Both were escorted to leave by police later.
On the contrary, an InMedia reporter who had filmed the police was forced by the police to delete all the photos.
Source: Stand News
#Aug15 #Neverforget #Neverforgive #HKProtest #PoliceState #PoliceBrutality
#Taiwan #DPP #ChenChiMai
DPP's Representative Chen Chi-mai Elected as Taiwan's Kaohsiung Mayor
Chen Chi-mai, spokesperson of Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party, won the mayoral by-election in Kaosiung, Taiwan on August 15 by a wide margin.
The former mayor Han Kuo-yu of the Kuomintang (KMT), the opposition camp in Taiwan, was ousted after receiving heavy criticism of his Beijing-friendly stance and following a recall vote in June, 2020.
According to the Kaohsiung City Election Commission, Chen received over 70 percent of the votes, while the KMT candidate Jane Lee marked the lowest number of votes the opposition party has obtained in Kaohsiung since 2014. Chen promised to focus on industrial transformation, job creation, the reduction of air pollution and building transport infrastructure in the city.
Source: RTHK; Taipei Times Aug15
Photo: Chen Chi-mai's Facebook #Aug15
#HanKuoYu #KMT
DPP's Representative Chen Chi-mai Elected as Taiwan's Kaohsiung Mayor
Chen Chi-mai, spokesperson of Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party, won the mayoral by-election in Kaosiung, Taiwan on August 15 by a wide margin.
The former mayor Han Kuo-yu of the Kuomintang (KMT), the opposition camp in Taiwan, was ousted after receiving heavy criticism of his Beijing-friendly stance and following a recall vote in June, 2020.
According to the Kaohsiung City Election Commission, Chen received over 70 percent of the votes, while the KMT candidate Jane Lee marked the lowest number of votes the opposition party has obtained in Kaohsiung since 2014. Chen promised to focus on industrial transformation, job creation, the reduction of air pollution and building transport infrastructure in the city.
Source: RTHK; Taipei Times Aug15
Photo: Chen Chi-mai's Facebook #Aug15
#HanKuoYu #KMT
#HealthCode #MassSurveillance #SocialCreditSystem #BigData #Privacy #CCP
"Encode us":
Health Code, or is it CCP's Social Credit System?
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."
---- Verses 16-18, Revelation 13, King James Bible
Editor's note: The implementation of a "Health Code" system is supported by the Hong Kong and Chinese Governments. Many Hongkongers have fear that the "Health Codes" will become a means of mass surveillance, following China's Social Credit System.
#Graphic Source: Knight Lai #Aug15
"Encode us":
Health Code, or is it CCP's Social Credit System?
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."
---- Verses 16-18, Revelation 13, King James Bible
Editor's note: The implementation of a "Health Code" system is supported by the Hong Kong and Chinese Governments. Many Hongkongers have fear that the "Health Codes" will become a means of mass surveillance, following China's Social Credit System.
#Graphic Source: Knight Lai #Aug15
#AcademicFreedom
Academics Demand #HKU and #HKBU to Retract their Decisions of Terminating the Contracts of #BennyTai and #ShiuKaChun
Source: InMedia #Aug15
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Academics Demand #HKU and #HKBU to Retract their Decisions of Terminating the Contracts of #BennyTai and #ShiuKaChun
Source: InMedia #Aug15
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#AcademicFreedom
Academics Demand #HKU and #HKBU to Retract their Decisions of Terminating the Contracts of #BennyTai and #ShiuKaChun
The Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has refused to renew the contract of Shiu Ka-Chun, a lecturer in social work and pro-democracy lawmaker of the social welfare functional constituency. The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has terminated the tenured position of Benny Tai, an associate professor of law and convener of the “Occupy Central with Peace and Love” civil disobedience campaign in 2014.
The education sector has initiated a petition condemning the 2 universities, and urging them to retract their decisions. Up to now, nearly 4,000 signatures has been collected.
Choi Bo-King, former associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (#CUHK) and member of Scholars’ Alliance for Academic Freedom, condemned government for intervening academic freedom. She pointed out that the Chief Executive (CE) has been appointing crucial positions in the universities’ committee which made decision on terminating the tenured position of legal professor Benny Tai.
Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union vice-president of Ip Kin-Yuen also criticised the university council of HKU which ignored the opinion of the university's senate of academic staff and insisted on dismissing Benny Tai in such a short time.
Citing a survey of the Global Public Policy Institute, Dixon Sing Ming, associate ptofessor of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (#HKUST) stated that Hong Kong academic freedom was marked with a score of 0.442, sharing a similar ranking with Ethiopia. It implies that academic freedom in Hong Kong has been facing a very serious crackeddown. This reveals how the authorities is suppressing human rights and democracy movements in Hong Kong via different faculties.
Source: InMedia #Aug15
Academics Demand #HKU and #HKBU to Retract their Decisions of Terminating the Contracts of #BennyTai and #ShiuKaChun
The Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has refused to renew the contract of Shiu Ka-Chun, a lecturer in social work and pro-democracy lawmaker of the social welfare functional constituency. The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has terminated the tenured position of Benny Tai, an associate professor of law and convener of the “Occupy Central with Peace and Love” civil disobedience campaign in 2014.
The education sector has initiated a petition condemning the 2 universities, and urging them to retract their decisions. Up to now, nearly 4,000 signatures has been collected.
Choi Bo-King, former associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (#CUHK) and member of Scholars’ Alliance for Academic Freedom, condemned government for intervening academic freedom. She pointed out that the Chief Executive (CE) has been appointing crucial positions in the universities’ committee which made decision on terminating the tenured position of legal professor Benny Tai.
Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union vice-president of Ip Kin-Yuen also criticised the university council of HKU which ignored the opinion of the university's senate of academic staff and insisted on dismissing Benny Tai in such a short time.
Citing a survey of the Global Public Policy Institute, Dixon Sing Ming, associate ptofessor of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (#HKUST) stated that Hong Kong academic freedom was marked with a score of 0.442, sharing a similar ranking with Ethiopia. It implies that academic freedom in Hong Kong has been facing a very serious crackeddown. This reveals how the authorities is suppressing human rights and democracy movements in Hong Kong via different faculties.
Source: InMedia #Aug15
Trump Signed Executive Order Forcing TikTok to be sold in 90 days
US President Donald Trump signed a new executive order requesting TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell or to withdraw its U.S. business within 90 days.
Trump signed the executive order on the 14th and said that there was credible evidence showing ByteDance may take actions to imperil the national security of the U.S. The order required ByteDance to destroy all TikTok data attached to U.S. users after selling its U.S. business in 90 days, then to inform the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (#CFIUS) when it had destroyed all that data.
ByteDance did not respond to this order directly but stated that 100 million Americans loved TikTok because they can get opportunities for entertainment, self-expression, as well as social connections, and would continue to bring joy to the users.
#DonaldTrump #Trump #TikTok #ByteDance #US
Source: Stand News #Aug15
US President Donald Trump signed a new executive order requesting TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell or to withdraw its U.S. business within 90 days.
Trump signed the executive order on the 14th and said that there was credible evidence showing ByteDance may take actions to imperil the national security of the U.S. The order required ByteDance to destroy all TikTok data attached to U.S. users after selling its U.S. business in 90 days, then to inform the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (#CFIUS) when it had destroyed all that data.
ByteDance did not respond to this order directly but stated that 100 million Americans loved TikTok because they can get opportunities for entertainment, self-expression, as well as social connections, and would continue to bring joy to the users.
#DonaldTrump #Trump #TikTok #ByteDance #US
Source: Stand News #Aug15
#FakeIdentity #WaterArmy #5Cents #ChineseNetizens
Chinese netizens go after Trump with AI-generated fake accounts
Source: Stand News #Aug15
#Trump #China #AI #USElection #SocialMedia #FakeAccounts #GenerativeAdversarialNetwork
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Chinese netizens go after Trump with AI-generated fake accounts
Source: Stand News #Aug15
#Trump #China #AI #USElection #SocialMedia #FakeAccounts #GenerativeAdversarialNetwork
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#FakeIdentity #WaterArmy #5Cents #ChineseNetizens
Chinese netizens go after Trump with AI-generated fake accounts
In recent months, a network of fake Chinese accounts with artificially generated followers has been criticizing US President Donald Trump on various social media channels, US media reported.
According to a research report by Graphika, a company cited by the Washington Post and other US media, these AI generated fake accounts have been bashing the Trump administration on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube since June. At first glance, it doesn't look like there's anything strange about those account profile pictures, but after careful observations, Graphika discovered that they seem to be produced by an AI program that creates fake faces. Pro-China groups then use these synthetic images to create accounts to share and post comments to attract more views.
Graphika says the common features of the account avatars are the blurred background and the position of the eyeballs in the photo. These strange photos are most likely the work of the Generative Adversarial Network (#GAN), a machine learning technology that specializes in creating seemingly real but fake faces. By studying real people and learning how to recreate facial features, GAN generates synthetic faces. The results aren't always perfect, and AI programs often have trouble showing accessories and other objects around facial features. The backgrounds are often left blurred as well.
Source: Stand News #Aug15
#Trump #China #AI #USElection #SocialMedia #FakeAccounts #GenerativeAdversarialNetwork
Chinese netizens go after Trump with AI-generated fake accounts
In recent months, a network of fake Chinese accounts with artificially generated followers has been criticizing US President Donald Trump on various social media channels, US media reported.
According to a research report by Graphika, a company cited by the Washington Post and other US media, these AI generated fake accounts have been bashing the Trump administration on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube since June. At first glance, it doesn't look like there's anything strange about those account profile pictures, but after careful observations, Graphika discovered that they seem to be produced by an AI program that creates fake faces. Pro-China groups then use these synthetic images to create accounts to share and post comments to attract more views.
Graphika says the common features of the account avatars are the blurred background and the position of the eyeballs in the photo. These strange photos are most likely the work of the Generative Adversarial Network (#GAN), a machine learning technology that specializes in creating seemingly real but fake faces. By studying real people and learning how to recreate facial features, GAN generates synthetic faces. The results aren't always perfect, and AI programs often have trouble showing accessories and other objects around facial features. The backgrounds are often left blurred as well.
Source: Stand News #Aug15
#Trump #China #AI #USElection #SocialMedia #FakeAccounts #GenerativeAdversarialNetwork