> "The administration must guard the dignity of the Hong Kong passport, which now enjoys visa-free status from 167 countries. The number would drop to 20 if we admit to breeding domestic terrorists,” the source continued."
> The sources pointed to Cap. 575 United Nations (Anti-Terrorism Measures) Ordinance, first enacted in Hong Kong in 2002 in line with a UN resolution after the September 11 terror attacks in the United States, that spells out terrorism related offences.
However, since the data is crowd-sourced, it wouldn't be hard for an attacker to inject bogus data rendering the entire website and app useless.
Which could be extremely dangerous for innocent civilians if people simply make up stuff. Someone could write, "guy in red shirt, blue jeans and white baseball cap having coffee in McDonalds is an undercover officer and beat a protestor last night".
Given the mob justice and violence that we've seen, it might be better that everyone simply ignores the site.
Why does YouTube do this? Allow embedded media on Twitter and other websites to play without restriction, but when you try to watch with YouTube, permissions are enforced?
> MTR train service is maintained at some of the railway lines. Due to serious vandalism, most of the stations in the network are temporarily closed. Service hour of the entire network will be adjusted and ended at 6 pm to allow more time for repair.
EDIT: Downvoted and flagged immediately because this story goes against the narrative...
Sounds like you're justifying the mob's response, which is the attempted murder of a police officer.
Nobody knows yet, at least no reports of, why the firearm was discharged. Maybe it was accidental. Maybe it was deliberate. Mob justice is not the answer.
By the way, you link to Hong Kong Free Press - give me a break. I wouldn't call them Fake News but they are very biased.
They are similar to the NY Times who literally are fake news. The NY Times had the audacity to claim an 18 year old who was shot a few days ago was unarmed.
Well everyone here on HackerNews can use their own eyes and see what the NY Times failed to see. An armed protestor (with the blue board) beating an officer on the ground and getting shot after he struck another officer who had his weapon drawn.
Showing students in their own lecture halls and classrooms being screamed at and bullied by black clad "protestors" (these days behaving more like cultural revolution Maoists).
Also if you understand Cantonese, in many videos, you can see and hear the protestors shout "stop filming" and "open umbrellas" to shield criminal acts from being filmed.
Yes, overseas Chinese communities are divided, as are families too.
What's happening now is that a Chinese person who doesn't support the protestors is labelled as being pro-China, which is ludicrous.
Protestors have been described as "Little Black Guards", a reference to the Cultural Revolution and the student led Red Guards.
Why? Because it's dangerous to voice an opinion or argue with protestors. There have been numerous assaults. The protestors even beat up a man and tied him up in the middle of Hong Kong international airport!
Now, there are daily fist fights between different factions, between police, radical protestors and pro-government supporters. Excessive force and violence has been committed by all sides.
Why would anyone trust the NYTimes which has just discredited itself over the weekend with its latest (botched) hatchet job on Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh?
There are genuine voices out there who disagree with the protestors political aims and who completely reject the violence employed by a radical minority of the protestors. Not everyone is a "wumao" or "5 cent" paid troll or bot.
It would be nice if there were more critical analysis of the Hong Kong protests. For example, why do prominent faces of the movement such as Joshua Wong frequently use the phrase "God Bless Hong Kong" for Western media interviews (and in a congressional hearing yesterday)? It's a phrase completely alien to Hong Kong and Chinese culture and clearly pandering to a target audience.
In this clip, you can see protestors/rioters punching the tourist in the back several times.
The chaos was at a train station called Tung Chung, which is a link to the airport, but the protestors trashed the station, flooding it and threw objects onto the railway line.
If this is the era of fake news, what comes next?