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National Security Officers Allegedly Interfere with Church-Organized Webinar on Google Meet
In Hong Kong on 30 August 2020, the Church of Christ in China (CCC) Tuen Mun Church held a webinar under the theme "The Historical Changes of the Crucifix under the Red Flag" through the communication software Google Meet.
The talk was a four-part series which discussed church and the religion policy in China. Soon after the webinar began, users who called themselves "Hong Kong Branch of China National Security Bureau", "China National Security Agency", and "Shenzhengovernment" (sic.) requested to join, but were refused by the webinar administrator.
Towards the end of the webinar, Pastor Chan Min-yi, who is also the director of the Tuen Mun Church, reported the incident to the participants. Following that, Chan was constantly being removed from the chat room by an unknown third party. In the end, Chen had to use his wife's phone to join the chat room, but whenever he turned on the camera to speak, he was being removed again. At the same time, several church members and speakers who were hosting the talk were also being removed from the chat room. Under the circumstances, he webinar was forced to end.
Pastor Chan said that the church chose to use Google Meet instead of Zoom for security reasons, but they suspected that they were still being monitored. He emphasized that the webinar was an introduction to the history of church policies in China and did not touch on the national security law. He said that the church will report the incident to Google, but has no intention to tell the police, "It is meaningless. The police are friends of the national security folks."
Source: CNews #Sep1
https://bit.ly/3joHJcS
#NationalSecurityLaw #GoogleMeet #MassSurveillance #CyberSecurity #CCCTuenMun #ChanMinYi
National Security Officers Allegedly Interfere with Church-Organized Webinar on Google Meet
In Hong Kong on 30 August 2020, the Church of Christ in China (CCC) Tuen Mun Church held a webinar under the theme "The Historical Changes of the Crucifix under the Red Flag" through the communication software Google Meet.
The talk was a four-part series which discussed church and the religion policy in China. Soon after the webinar began, users who called themselves "Hong Kong Branch of China National Security Bureau", "China National Security Agency", and "Shenzhengovernment" (sic.) requested to join, but were refused by the webinar administrator.
Towards the end of the webinar, Pastor Chan Min-yi, who is also the director of the Tuen Mun Church, reported the incident to the participants. Following that, Chan was constantly being removed from the chat room by an unknown third party. In the end, Chen had to use his wife's phone to join the chat room, but whenever he turned on the camera to speak, he was being removed again. At the same time, several church members and speakers who were hosting the talk were also being removed from the chat room. Under the circumstances, he webinar was forced to end.
Pastor Chan said that the church chose to use Google Meet instead of Zoom for security reasons, but they suspected that they were still being monitored. He emphasized that the webinar was an introduction to the history of church policies in China and did not touch on the national security law. He said that the church will report the incident to Google, but has no intention to tell the police, "It is meaningless. The police are friends of the national security folks."
Source: CNews #Sep1
https://bit.ly/3joHJcS
#NationalSecurityLaw #GoogleMeet #MassSurveillance #CyberSecurity #CCCTuenMun #ChanMinYi
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中華基督教會屯門堂星期日(30日)透過通訊軟件Google Meet,舉行一個名為「紅旗下十架的歷史變遷」的講座,內容主要圍繞中國的政教關係。講座進行期間,分別有自稱「中國國安局香港分局」、「中國國家安全局」、「Shenzhengovernment」(深圳政府)的用戶要求加入。
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