High Court Prolongs Interim injunction Order in relation to Online Messages
Read more: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/11120
The Secretary For Justice Teresa Cheng applied for prolonging the interim injunction order of banning any message that promotes or incites the use of violence through internet or any other platform like telegram.
The Internet Society of Hong Kong took to the court, denouncing the act as unconstitutional. At around 16:00, the High Court rejected the application of judicial review and accepted the Secretary of Justice's request to prolong the injunction order.
Source: RTHK
#Nov15 #Court #Internet
Read more: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/11120
The Secretary For Justice Teresa Cheng applied for prolonging the interim injunction order of banning any message that promotes or incites the use of violence through internet or any other platform like telegram.
The Internet Society of Hong Kong took to the court, denouncing the act as unconstitutional. At around 16:00, the High Court rejected the application of judicial review and accepted the Secretary of Justice's request to prolong the injunction order.
Source: RTHK
#Nov15 #Court #Internet
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States Interim Injunction Order on Internet Messages as Unconstitutional
Last month, the High Court has granted an interim injunction order to restrain anyone from illegally and intentionally…
States Interim Injunction Order on Internet Messages as Unconstitutional
Last month, the High Court has granted an interim injunction order to restrain anyone from illegally and intentionally…
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UK Universities comply with China’s internet restriction
//UK universities are testing a new online teaching link for students in China - which will require course materials to comply with Chinese restrictions on the internet.
//MPs on the foreign affairs select committee have previously warned against universities avoiding "topics sensitive to China", such as pro-democracy protests or the treatment of Uighur Muslims.
//Universities UK, which is a supporter of the project, said: "We do not endorse censorship. This scheme is intended to ensure that Chinese students, learning remotely during the pandemic, can access course materials and are able to continue their studies."
//But a spokeswoman for JISC says Chinese students will not have free access to the internet, but will only be able to reach "resources that are controlled and specified" by the university in the UK.
//Any online information used in these UK university courses will have to be on a "security 'allow' list
//This raises questions about academic freedom and free speech
//JISC says online students in China face particular barriers with restrictions that "screen traffic between China and the rest of the world, filtering content from overseas used for delivering teaching and learning and blocking some platforms and applications".
Full Article: BBC, (10-Jul)
#UK #University #Education #Censorship #Internet
UK Universities comply with China’s internet restriction
//UK universities are testing a new online teaching link for students in China - which will require course materials to comply with Chinese restrictions on the internet.
//MPs on the foreign affairs select committee have previously warned against universities avoiding "topics sensitive to China", such as pro-democracy protests or the treatment of Uighur Muslims.
//Universities UK, which is a supporter of the project, said: "We do not endorse censorship. This scheme is intended to ensure that Chinese students, learning remotely during the pandemic, can access course materials and are able to continue their studies."
//But a spokeswoman for JISC says Chinese students will not have free access to the internet, but will only be able to reach "resources that are controlled and specified" by the university in the UK.
//Any online information used in these UK university courses will have to be on a "security 'allow' list
//This raises questions about academic freedom and free speech
//JISC says online students in China face particular barriers with restrictions that "screen traffic between China and the rest of the world, filtering content from overseas used for delivering teaching and learning and blocking some platforms and applications".
Full Article: BBC, (10-Jul)
#UK #University #Education #Censorship #Internet
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UK universities comply with China's internet restrictions
But universities reject that tests on online learning in China are accepting "censorship".
American-Chinese Writer Slammed as “Pro-American Traitor” on Internet, Says China Uses Her in Propaganda
American-Chinese writer Fan Jiayang has recently taken to Twitter to fight for a waiver that would allow private nurses to care for her mother, suffering from ALS, at the hospital during the epidemic. The incident was widely reported and hotly debated in China with Fan being slammed by Chinese netizens as a “traitor”, “worshipping America,” and “bringing shame to her extended family.” In a New Yorker article, Fan tells the story of how she and her mother have been used by China in its propaganda.
In her article “How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda,” Fan says she was born in Chongqing, China in 1984. When she was two years old, her father was sent to the US to study biology at Harvard University. At the age of eight, she followed her mother, who was a doctor, to America to reunite with him.
A year and a half after Fan arrived in the US, her father had an affair and left her and her mother. To provide Fan with the best education possible, her mother moved to Greenwich, Connecticut to work as a domestic helper in an affluent neighbourhood—just so her daughter could attend a public school and receive a scholarship to attend a prestigious school. Having been through the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution in China, her mother, as Fan describes, developed her survival instincts out of a “brutal, unsentimental pragmatism.”
Fan eventually graduated from Williams College, became a writer for The New Yorker, and moved to New York City with her mother. In 2011, her mother, then 59, was diagnosed with ALS, which left her paralysed and hospitalized for an extended period of time. Since 2014, she has been unable to breathe on her own and relied on a ventilator at all times. Fan hired a round-the-clock caregiver to take care of her mother. Communication with her would now have to depend on blinking and letter boards.
When the Wuhan virus pandemic broke out in New York City this March, the Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital, where Fan’s mother was staying, banned visitors like Fan, who now had to rely on the caregiver to care for her mother. As a patient was diagnosed with the virus, the hospital expelled everyone other than medical workers on 9 April. The caregiver Fan hired was among those asked to leave.
Fan then gave a detailed account of the incident on Twitter, stressing that her mother required exclusive care, and posted photos of the situation at the hospital. This drew the attention of a number of legislators in New York. With the help of various people, Fan’s caregiver was able to return to the hospital the following day to continue taking care of her mother.
Fan’s story was soon widely reported in China. The Global Times, a state-run media outlet, said Fan had been targeted by the protesters when covering the demonstrations in Hong Kong for The New Yorker last year. The tabloid then said she described her Chinese-looking face as a “liability” on Twitter following the assignment. Other reports said that Fan’s articles endorsed the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong and that she has “misattributed the origin of the virus to China.” Fan was attacked by a large number of Chinese netizens on WeChat, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, who criticized her for being a traitor and making a living by slandering the motherland. They hurled at her such slurs as “NMSL” (“your mother is dead”) and threatened to burn, rape and abuse her. A photo of Fan and her mother also circulated on the Internet, where netizen China15z0dj wrote, “Your mother’s gonna die, haha. The 1.4 billion of us wish you a reunion with her in hell, haha.”
Source: Apple Daily #Sep12
#US #HK #China #FanJiayang #TheNewYorker #Internet #Propaganda #WuhanVirus #Coronavirus #Pandemic #COVID19
https://bit.ly/33dCDLi
American-Chinese writer Fan Jiayang has recently taken to Twitter to fight for a waiver that would allow private nurses to care for her mother, suffering from ALS, at the hospital during the epidemic. The incident was widely reported and hotly debated in China with Fan being slammed by Chinese netizens as a “traitor”, “worshipping America,” and “bringing shame to her extended family.” In a New Yorker article, Fan tells the story of how she and her mother have been used by China in its propaganda.
In her article “How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda,” Fan says she was born in Chongqing, China in 1984. When she was two years old, her father was sent to the US to study biology at Harvard University. At the age of eight, she followed her mother, who was a doctor, to America to reunite with him.
A year and a half after Fan arrived in the US, her father had an affair and left her and her mother. To provide Fan with the best education possible, her mother moved to Greenwich, Connecticut to work as a domestic helper in an affluent neighbourhood—just so her daughter could attend a public school and receive a scholarship to attend a prestigious school. Having been through the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution in China, her mother, as Fan describes, developed her survival instincts out of a “brutal, unsentimental pragmatism.”
Fan eventually graduated from Williams College, became a writer for The New Yorker, and moved to New York City with her mother. In 2011, her mother, then 59, was diagnosed with ALS, which left her paralysed and hospitalized for an extended period of time. Since 2014, she has been unable to breathe on her own and relied on a ventilator at all times. Fan hired a round-the-clock caregiver to take care of her mother. Communication with her would now have to depend on blinking and letter boards.
When the Wuhan virus pandemic broke out in New York City this March, the Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital, where Fan’s mother was staying, banned visitors like Fan, who now had to rely on the caregiver to care for her mother. As a patient was diagnosed with the virus, the hospital expelled everyone other than medical workers on 9 April. The caregiver Fan hired was among those asked to leave.
Fan then gave a detailed account of the incident on Twitter, stressing that her mother required exclusive care, and posted photos of the situation at the hospital. This drew the attention of a number of legislators in New York. With the help of various people, Fan’s caregiver was able to return to the hospital the following day to continue taking care of her mother.
Fan’s story was soon widely reported in China. The Global Times, a state-run media outlet, said Fan had been targeted by the protesters when covering the demonstrations in Hong Kong for The New Yorker last year. The tabloid then said she described her Chinese-looking face as a “liability” on Twitter following the assignment. Other reports said that Fan’s articles endorsed the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong and that she has “misattributed the origin of the virus to China.” Fan was attacked by a large number of Chinese netizens on WeChat, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, who criticized her for being a traitor and making a living by slandering the motherland. They hurled at her such slurs as “NMSL” (“your mother is dead”) and threatened to burn, rape and abuse her. A photo of Fan and her mother also circulated on the Internet, where netizen China15z0dj wrote, “Your mother’s gonna die, haha. The 1.4 billion of us wish you a reunion with her in hell, haha.”
Source: Apple Daily #Sep12
#US #HK #China #FanJiayang #TheNewYorker #Internet #Propaganda #WuhanVirus #Coronavirus #Pandemic #COVID19
https://bit.ly/33dCDLi
#GreatFireWall #Internet #Censorship
HK Authorities Purportedly Limit Internet Access Through Nation Security Law
The website “Hong Kong Chronicles” released a statement on 7 Jan, 2021, reporting that some netizens in Hong Kong failed to access their website when using internet services providers (ISP) including SmarTone, China Mobile, HKBN and PCCW since 6 Jan, 2021.
It was suspected that these ISPs had blocked the website on the authorities’ request.
The Hong Kong Police said they would not comment on an individual case, but they would act in accordance with the #NationalSecurityLaw. It was understood that the National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force for the first time invoked the Cap. 43 of the national security law.
Source: MingPao #Jan8
https://news.mingpao.com/ins/%e6%b8%af%e8%81%9e/article/20210108/s00001/1610093311437
#HongKongChronicles
HK Authorities Purportedly Limit Internet Access Through Nation Security Law
The website “Hong Kong Chronicles” released a statement on 7 Jan, 2021, reporting that some netizens in Hong Kong failed to access their website when using internet services providers (ISP) including SmarTone, China Mobile, HKBN and PCCW since 6 Jan, 2021.
It was suspected that these ISPs had blocked the website on the authorities’ request.
The Hong Kong Police said they would not comment on an individual case, but they would act in accordance with the #NationalSecurityLaw. It was understood that the National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force for the first time invoked the Cap. 43 of the national security law.
Source: MingPao #Jan8
https://news.mingpao.com/ins/%e6%b8%af%e8%81%9e/article/20210108/s00001/1610093311437
#HongKongChronicles
#GreatFireWall #106Crackdown
#WashingtonPost: First came political crimes. Now, a digital crackdown descends on Hong Kong
//The digital sweep showed how Hong Kong authorities are wielding their new powers under the national security law — introduced last summer — far more widely than the city’s leader promised.
Since the Jan. 6 raids, authorities have blocked at least one website, according to the site’s owner and local media reports, raising concerns that Hong Kong is headed for broader digital surveillance and censorship akin to that in mainland China.
...Shortly after the arrests and device seizures, colleagues and associates of those detained started noticing strange activity on their social media and email accounts.
Ray Chan, a former pro-democracy lawmaker arrested at his home, said he kept receiving confirmation codessent by Telegram to a replacement phone after police confiscated his devices. The codes are used to verify the authenticity of a user trying to log into an account.
Separately, Lam Cheuk-ting and Helena Wong, two former Democratic Party lawmakers, said their staffs received notifications from Google that state-sponsored hackers were trying to breach their work accounts, which are hosted on a Gmail server. The Google alerts arrived just after their arrests, once their devices were in the hands of police.
“It is a redo of the Great Firewall,” said Lokman Tsui, an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who specializes in privacy and online communications. “They are testing the waters for now, so the results are uneven — but it is a question of when and how, not if.”
Glacier Kwong, founder of Keyboard Frontline, which tracks digital rights in Hong Kong, said the government clearly intends to crack down on one of the last free spaces for dissent.
“The government has actually set a precedent,” Kwong said. “As long as it is not to the liking of the regime, a website can be blocked without any reason under the national security law, which is a clear blow to the freedom of the Internet, freedom of information and freedom of speech.”//
Read the full article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/hong-kong-national-security-law-internet/2021/01/12/01738064-53b6-11eb-acc5-92d2819a1ccb_story.html
Source: Washington Post #Jan12
#CyberSecurity #PoliceState #HKChronicles #Internet
#WashingtonPost: First came political crimes. Now, a digital crackdown descends on Hong Kong
//The digital sweep showed how Hong Kong authorities are wielding their new powers under the national security law — introduced last summer — far more widely than the city’s leader promised.
Since the Jan. 6 raids, authorities have blocked at least one website, according to the site’s owner and local media reports, raising concerns that Hong Kong is headed for broader digital surveillance and censorship akin to that in mainland China.
...Shortly after the arrests and device seizures, colleagues and associates of those detained started noticing strange activity on their social media and email accounts.
Ray Chan, a former pro-democracy lawmaker arrested at his home, said he kept receiving confirmation codessent by Telegram to a replacement phone after police confiscated his devices. The codes are used to verify the authenticity of a user trying to log into an account.
Separately, Lam Cheuk-ting and Helena Wong, two former Democratic Party lawmakers, said their staffs received notifications from Google that state-sponsored hackers were trying to breach their work accounts, which are hosted on a Gmail server. The Google alerts arrived just after their arrests, once their devices were in the hands of police.
“It is a redo of the Great Firewall,” said Lokman Tsui, an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who specializes in privacy and online communications. “They are testing the waters for now, so the results are uneven — but it is a question of when and how, not if.”
Glacier Kwong, founder of Keyboard Frontline, which tracks digital rights in Hong Kong, said the government clearly intends to crack down on one of the last free spaces for dissent.
“The government has actually set a precedent,” Kwong said. “As long as it is not to the liking of the regime, a website can be blocked without any reason under the national security law, which is a clear blow to the freedom of the Internet, freedom of information and freedom of speech.”//
Read the full article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/hong-kong-national-security-law-internet/2021/01/12/01738064-53b6-11eb-acc5-92d2819a1ccb_story.html
Source: Washington Post #Jan12
#CyberSecurity #PoliceState #HKChronicles #Internet
#Censorship #GreatFireWall
Authorities Appoint Body to Ban Websites "Interrupting" Hong Kong Government's Operation
The Hong Kong government designates Hong Kong Internet Registration Corp. (#HKIRC) to undertake the administration of internet domain names under the “.hk” (in Chinese and English) code.
The “Domain Name Registration Acceptable Use Policy” has been recently amended. The document states that the requirements of domain name registration include: “not to violate the law in any way”, “not to abuse public interest (including but not limited to harass the Hong Kong government’s operation)”, as well as not to include any words “advocating violence” and “the crime of incitement”.
From 28 January 2021 onwards, the domain name registration will be rejected and disclosed to the law enforcement authority if any violation is found.
As half of the HKIRC board directors were appointed by the Government, Wong Ho-Wa, lawmaker of the Information Technology functional constituency, said the body might take a defensive approach to avoid any involvement in controversial issues owing to the National Security Law (#NSL) enactment.
Wong added that websites could change to a new domain name if the domain name of “.hk” was not rejected. He emphasized that one should not to rationalize an unreasonable system.
Source: Stand News #Jan15
https://bit.ly/3nMYdNR
#MassSurveillance #Internet #DomainNamd
Authorities Appoint Body to Ban Websites "Interrupting" Hong Kong Government's Operation
The Hong Kong government designates Hong Kong Internet Registration Corp. (#HKIRC) to undertake the administration of internet domain names under the “.hk” (in Chinese and English) code.
The “Domain Name Registration Acceptable Use Policy” has been recently amended. The document states that the requirements of domain name registration include: “not to violate the law in any way”, “not to abuse public interest (including but not limited to harass the Hong Kong government’s operation)”, as well as not to include any words “advocating violence” and “the crime of incitement”.
From 28 January 2021 onwards, the domain name registration will be rejected and disclosed to the law enforcement authority if any violation is found.
As half of the HKIRC board directors were appointed by the Government, Wong Ho-Wa, lawmaker of the Information Technology functional constituency, said the body might take a defensive approach to avoid any involvement in controversial issues owing to the National Security Law (#NSL) enactment.
Wong added that websites could change to a new domain name if the domain name of “.hk” was not rejected. He emphasized that one should not to rationalize an unreasonable system.
Source: Stand News #Jan15
https://bit.ly/3nMYdNR
#MassSurveillance #Internet #DomainNamd
#GreatFireWall #Censorship
Hong Kong Authorities Purportedly Block the Website of Taiwan's Transitional Justice Commission
The official website of the Transitional Justice Commission (https://www.tjc.gov.tw/), established in Taiwan in 2018, is reportedly blocked in Hong Kong, as on Feb 12, 2021.
The Stand News reveals that it is impossible to connect to the website via Internet providers in Hong Kong including HKT, China Mobile, Smarttone and CSL.
On Feb 12, 2021, the Security Bureau of the Hong Kong Government gave a written reply to the media inquiry that they will not comment on any guess on police operation; while the police orally refused to reply and claimed that any response from the Security Bureau is "accurate".
The Stand News managed to access the said website via VPN connected to servers outside of Hong Kong with IP addresses such as in Japan and Taiwan.
Source: Stand News #Feb12
https://bit.ly/3tSSMkw
#FailedState #FreeSpeech #Internet #Taiwan #TransitionalJusticeCommission
Hong Kong Authorities Purportedly Block the Website of Taiwan's Transitional Justice Commission
The official website of the Transitional Justice Commission (https://www.tjc.gov.tw/), established in Taiwan in 2018, is reportedly blocked in Hong Kong, as on Feb 12, 2021.
The Stand News reveals that it is impossible to connect to the website via Internet providers in Hong Kong including HKT, China Mobile, Smarttone and CSL.
On Feb 12, 2021, the Security Bureau of the Hong Kong Government gave a written reply to the media inquiry that they will not comment on any guess on police operation; while the police orally refused to reply and claimed that any response from the Security Bureau is "accurate".
The Stand News managed to access the said website via VPN connected to servers outside of Hong Kong with IP addresses such as in Japan and Taiwan.
Source: Stand News #Feb12
https://bit.ly/3tSSMkw
#FailedState #FreeSpeech #Internet #Taiwan #TransitionalJusticeCommission
#PoliceState #GrearFireWall
Hong Kong Police demand Website Builder to Disable Pro-Democracy Website "2021 Hong Kong Charter"
The 2021 Hong Kong Charter and thre Hong Kong Liberation Coalition (#HKLC), two websites launched by exiled Hong Kongers and those living overseas, suddenly became unavailable on June 3, 2021.
According to the former leader of #Demosisto #NathanLaw, after certain negotiations with #Wix, the website builder of #2021HongKongCharter, they were able to obtain a letter issued to the company by Hong Kong Police.
In the letter, the Police demanded Wix to disable the website in 72 hours due to suspicion of its violation to the #NationalSecurityLaw including incitement of secession and subversion against the Chinese government and collusion with foreign forces.
In the evening of, 2021 Hong Kong Charter was restored. Wix posted on Twitter explaining that the website was disabled by mistake and it has already resumed its operation. Wix apologized and promised to review its policy to avoid repeating the same mistake.
Source: Stand News #Jun3
https://bit.ly/3zJzQHI
#Internet #WhiteTerror
Hong Kong Police demand Website Builder to Disable Pro-Democracy Website "2021 Hong Kong Charter"
The 2021 Hong Kong Charter and thre Hong Kong Liberation Coalition (#HKLC), two websites launched by exiled Hong Kongers and those living overseas, suddenly became unavailable on June 3, 2021.
According to the former leader of #Demosisto #NathanLaw, after certain negotiations with #Wix, the website builder of #2021HongKongCharter, they were able to obtain a letter issued to the company by Hong Kong Police.
In the letter, the Police demanded Wix to disable the website in 72 hours due to suspicion of its violation to the #NationalSecurityLaw including incitement of secession and subversion against the Chinese government and collusion with foreign forces.
In the evening of, 2021 Hong Kong Charter was restored. Wix posted on Twitter explaining that the website was disabled by mistake and it has already resumed its operation. Wix apologized and promised to review its policy to avoid repeating the same mistake.
Source: Stand News #Jun3
https://bit.ly/3zJzQHI
#Internet #WhiteTerror
The “Great Firewall of China” is blocking 311,000 domains, including commercial, pornographic, and news media sites.
A team of academics from US and Canadian universities is investigating the China's Great Firewall with in-house developed system called “GFWatch”, to determine China's internet censorship capabilities.
The research team said that the China's Great Firewall blocks newly registered domains by default, until the authorities could filter and categorize their content. Using “GFWatch”, researchers tested 534 million distinct domains from April to December 2020, accessing around 411 million domains on a daily basis, and sorted out about 311,000 domains currently blocked by the China's Great Firewall, in which 40% of them are newly registered domains. The most frequently blocked ones include commercial, pornographic or news media.
Moreover, as the pandemic grew more intense last year some of the COVID-19 related websites are also banned, such as covid-19truth.info. In addition, some domains are accidentally blocked for name similarity with intentionally block sites. For instant, bookreddit.com is also blocked when the Chinese authorities blocks reddit.com, which make Chinese students hard to use those online resources for learning.
Source: Unwire.HK #Jul16
https://unwire.hk/2021/07/16/gfwblockage/fun-tech
#China #Firewall #Internet #Censorship #Pornographic #GFWatch #COVID19 #Reddit #LearningResources
A team of academics from US and Canadian universities is investigating the China's Great Firewall with in-house developed system called “GFWatch”, to determine China's internet censorship capabilities.
The research team said that the China's Great Firewall blocks newly registered domains by default, until the authorities could filter and categorize their content. Using “GFWatch”, researchers tested 534 million distinct domains from April to December 2020, accessing around 411 million domains on a daily basis, and sorted out about 311,000 domains currently blocked by the China's Great Firewall, in which 40% of them are newly registered domains. The most frequently blocked ones include commercial, pornographic or news media.
Moreover, as the pandemic grew more intense last year some of the COVID-19 related websites are also banned, such as covid-19truth.info. In addition, some domains are accidentally blocked for name similarity with intentionally block sites. For instant, bookreddit.com is also blocked when the Chinese authorities blocks reddit.com, which make Chinese students hard to use those online resources for learning.
Source: Unwire.HK #Jul16
https://unwire.hk/2021/07/16/gfwblockage/fun-tech
#China #Firewall #Internet #Censorship #Pornographic #GFWatch #COVID19 #Reddit #LearningResources
Unwire.hk
「中國防火長城」封鎖 31 萬個網站 商業、色情、新聞媒體類佔大多數
最近有外國大學組成研究團隊，對「中國防火長城」進行研究。透過採用自身開發的「GFWatch」的系統，審視現時中國網絡封鎖的情況。 研究小組指出，現時「中國防火長城」的機制會先封鎖新註冊的網站，然後再由當局為這些網站進行過濾和分類。據研究數據顯示，「GFWatch」在 2020 年 4 月到 12
China Steps Up Direct Involvement in Internet-Content Firms
China is taking a more direct hand in managing its internet-content companies by acquiring stakes, filling board seats and sending dedicated regulators to police content at firms more frequently, according to corporate filings and people familiar with the matter.
The moves, which aim to strengthen the government’s control over online content, build on guidelines first mooted in 2016 but enacted with rigor over the past year as Beijing has been increasing regulatory scrutiny into its technology sector. Authorities most recently targeted ByteDance Ltd., the owner of buzzy short-video platform TikTok as well as a popular suite of other news and content apps in China.
Source: WSJ #Aug17
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-steps-up-direct-involvement-in-internet-content-firms-11629209515
#China #ByteDance #TikTok #Internet
China is taking a more direct hand in managing its internet-content companies by acquiring stakes, filling board seats and sending dedicated regulators to police content at firms more frequently, according to corporate filings and people familiar with the matter.
The moves, which aim to strengthen the government’s control over online content, build on guidelines first mooted in 2016 but enacted with rigor over the past year as Beijing has been increasing regulatory scrutiny into its technology sector. Authorities most recently targeted ByteDance Ltd., the owner of buzzy short-video platform TikTok as well as a popular suite of other news and content apps in China.
Source: WSJ #Aug17
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-steps-up-direct-involvement-in-internet-content-firms-11629209515
#China #ByteDance #TikTok #Internet
Hong Kong Police Orders Pro-democracy Group to Delete Content from All Digital Platforms
On September 16, 2021, Hong Kong police ordered The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China to remove the content of their website, Facebook page and other digital platform.
This is followed by the arrests of the group's directors, who were charged with the subversion of state, and the police raid of the June 4 museum, which was previously run by the group.
The Alliance is a pro-democracy organization established in Hong Kong which had been organizing the annual candlelight vigil commemorating the victims of the 1989 June 4 Tiananmen Massacre for 30 years.
The order was sent by a letter issued by the police commissioner on September 10. The organization was given 7 days to erase the content on all their digital platforms.
Source: Stand News #Sept16
https://www.facebook.com/710476795704610/posts/4544250728993845/
#PoliticalSuppression #Censorship #June4 #GreatFireWall #Internet
On September 16, 2021, Hong Kong police ordered The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China to remove the content of their website, Facebook page and other digital platform.
This is followed by the arrests of the group's directors, who were charged with the subversion of state, and the police raid of the June 4 museum, which was previously run by the group.
The Alliance is a pro-democracy organization established in Hong Kong which had been organizing the annual candlelight vigil commemorating the victims of the 1989 June 4 Tiananmen Massacre for 30 years.
The order was sent by a letter issued by the police commissioner on September 10. The organization was given 7 days to erase the content on all their digital platforms.
Source: Stand News #Sept16
https://www.facebook.com/710476795704610/posts/4544250728993845/
#PoliticalSuppression #Censorship #June4 #GreatFireWall #Internet
#TonyeeChow #Court
Hong Kong Judge Questions Arrested Pro-democracy Barrister: Can You Access Internet in Jail?
Barrister Tonyee Chow Hang-tung is a pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong and the former Vice Chairperson of Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. The now-disbanded Alliance was known for organizing the annual June 4 vigil in Hong Kong to commemorate the victims of the Tianamen Square Massacre in Beijing in 1989.
She was arrested for state subversion by the Hong Kong authority.
The authority accused her of calling on citizens to participate in June 4th commemorative event in 2020, which was banned by the government. Chow was charged with "inciting others to participate in an unauthorised assembly".
The case was heard in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts by Judge Chan Wai-mun on October 5, 2021.
Chow, who has been detained since her arrest, stated that she would defend herself and make her own statement. She will argue whether it is constitutional to restrict the dispute to freedom and whether the related article she disseminsted can ce considered as an "incitement".
Due to the limited resources she has when on remand, Chow asked for one to two weeks' time for preparation.
The Judge then questioned her, “Where did you find the law books in jail? Can you access Internet?” The query made citizens attending the session laughed.
Chow responded that she would rely on her professional knowledge of law and seek help from friends.
Source: Stand News #Oct5
https://bit.ly/2ZXtBCZ
#June4 #HKASPDMC #Vigil #TiananmenSquareMassacre #Internet #ChowHangTung #CivilSociety #Law #Alliance
Hong Kong Judge Questions Arrested Pro-democracy Barrister: Can You Access Internet in Jail?
Barrister Tonyee Chow Hang-tung is a pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong and the former Vice Chairperson of Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. The now-disbanded Alliance was known for organizing the annual June 4 vigil in Hong Kong to commemorate the victims of the Tianamen Square Massacre in Beijing in 1989.
She was arrested for state subversion by the Hong Kong authority.
The authority accused her of calling on citizens to participate in June 4th commemorative event in 2020, which was banned by the government. Chow was charged with "inciting others to participate in an unauthorised assembly".
The case was heard in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts by Judge Chan Wai-mun on October 5, 2021.
Chow, who has been detained since her arrest, stated that she would defend herself and make her own statement. She will argue whether it is constitutional to restrict the dispute to freedom and whether the related article she disseminsted can ce considered as an "incitement".
Due to the limited resources she has when on remand, Chow asked for one to two weeks' time for preparation.
The Judge then questioned her, “Where did you find the law books in jail? Can you access Internet?” The query made citizens attending the session laughed.
Chow responded that she would rely on her professional knowledge of law and seek help from friends.
Source: Stand News #Oct5
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